thinking about how the only "good" software anymore that's got widespread use is whatever open source projects survived long enough to be worked on across multiple decades of computer programming metagame changing, and how bigcorp and even littlecorp software right now only gets like 5 years at most to live before being taken offline forever since the need for growth means they need to find a new market every time they saturate one, and abandoning it once saturated is cheaper than maintaining it.