Software has been running in the cloud for nearly 2 decades at this point. But yes, I get your point. Their master plan is to get us all on terminals and use their clouds as a giant mainframe more or less.

Doesn't have to be that way though. Not all tech needs to be the latest and greatest. So long as it's secure and is feature complete who cares how it looks.

Ironically, with LLMs at our disposal, making new software is easier than ever. In the hands of skilled engineers tasks that took weeks take days. It's more realistic now for a single dev to sit down with a goal like "let's remake X software, but a 10mb memory limit". We can prototype this kind of stuff faster than ever, so we can use the very tools causing this problem to solve this problem.