> let's take 3 hours to handhold you through simplifying it until nothing more can be removed.

I think much of the world of software has become incredibly myopic. I get it, it's a lot harder to win a war than it is to win a battle but just usually taking the easy way out is just deferring the costs to your future. Problem is that those costs accrue interest... Personally? I'm lazy and a cheapskate.

When did programmers stop becoming lazy and start becoming lazy? More importantly, why?