Warren Buffett said one of his greatest assets is the ability to "no" without fear of social pressure and retribution.
Too many bosses and customers want fancy eye-candy without knowing and/or caring about the carrying cost of this bloat. Staff feels obliged to make them happy. All primates love "shiny red things", even humans, even if it's not rational.
Toys won in more ways than one. Most content consumers now use apps more than websites so all this won't matter in a decade or two when the open internet will be some anachronism which lives outside the prevailing handful of walled gardens.
Too many bosses and customers want fancy eye-candy without knowing and/or caring about the carrying cost of this bloat. Staff feels obliged to make them happy. All primates love "shiny red things", even humans, even if it's not rational.
K.I.S.S. is dead in IT. Fads and toys won.