Reading this it occurs to me that this timeline may be moving toward a future where garbage software, garbage information etc. have become the norm for so long that the number of people who can distinguish trash from quality, or signal from noise, has become negligible.

A true era of ignorance, looking like an ocean of nonsense in which no one can really navigate as it is ungrounded in reality.

Idiocracy presents a naively gentle positive version of such future but there are many darker ones possible.

Kali Yuga, indeed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga

Customers abandon companies that fail.

Remember how they used Brando to water plants and it kills them? Eventually mistakes break critical systems and you fail.

This is more because less educated people are coming onto the internet and programming.

World was probably more ignorant before but internet/computers as a space was better because it consisted of a different set of people.

There is still a ton of people that do understand quality and produce high quality stuff obviously

Ignorance is too generous a word. This is epistemic collapse.

The pralaya is not far away. Soon Shiva will begin his dance. I give us until 2036.

Perhaps, but people don't care that much about a bug with Instagram. Once critical infrastructure starts failing people will take notice.