> Instead we're faced with the constant churn of semi-functional code, users working in silos and then showing up with patches well after it's too late to give them direction, animated GIFs instead of careful engineering discussion.

I've been paying attention to this stuff since around 1998, and except for the animated GIFs, this has always been the case. The difference is that we've had 15 years for the abandoned cruft to accumulate, and Google has gotten a lot better at finding it.