We keep seeing more and more abstractions, but unfortunately they are the wrong abstractions. We need working process isolation, not endless VMs inside other VMs. We need a logical layer on top of TCP/IP, not crazy complicated VPN schemes. Etc. This is completely obvious to some people, and seems completely incomprehensible to others. Unfortunately, the companies with resources are mostly staffed with the latter.
Mind expanding on this? Why are better protocols incomprehensible? I find it hard to believe big orgs like Cloudflare, Google, etc. wouldn't be very interested in abstractions that save them or make them money, but I've been surprised before.
The problem is not that a superior abstraction exists that you can make money from, the problem is that you have to hire people who work well with that abstraction, and that is usually the impediment.
For example, I bet NixOS would alleviate a lot of pain with development and deployment, but the learning curve is steep, poorly documented, and still in need of work, and the community is just not very big yet.
