(Excessive?) Complexity

On 2025-02-08, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net <WokieSux283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

   Anyway, of late, software "improvements" have
   too often been the exact opposite. What alien
   universe do these 'improvers' COME from ???
>
   IMHO, a lot of this is just "busy work" from
   people looking for something to do. Their
   idea of "better" means "better for ME - and
   screw YOU". It's not better for the average,
   or even professional, user.
>
   Maybe we need a new branch ... Linux-2004 ...
   with all the good stuff and none of these
   "improvements" ??? Linux and related was
   damned good from the start, SOLID by 2004.
>
   It worked. It was kinda simple. You COULD
   figure it out without committing suicide.
   NOW, it just seems to be becoming an
   incomprehensible ever-mutating MESS - Winders
   by another name.

Much of the complexity that you do not approve of, seems to me to be
related to Linux's ambition to produce code that works on everything
from an embedded IoT device to a high-performance laptop to a clustered
datacenter rack from a single set of source files.

Back "in the Golden Age", the spectrum of systems that the code was
expected to support was much narrower; that would tend to make the code
much simpler and more readable.