It's a trade off as always. I agree though.

I wonder the same thing a lot. I also wonder how AI will fit into this problem.

I agree AI is interesting here. It raises the level of abstraction in a similar way to the OS/Browser/language, but it does so by depending on a lot of data, as opposed to depending on a lot of code.

The cost of abstraction is always dependencies.

There’s a sort of graph isomorphism problem of mapping APIs onto each other that seems solvable since a lot of them do the same thing but in different ways. Though it’d take something more keen on the minutiae than the LLMs for this I think