The difference is, that the universal hammer is in fact mostly good enough, or at least can be, if it's well designed, for everyone except people who are interested in simplicity for its own sake.
We had layers of complexity and frameworks and embedded scripting on literal 8 bit game consoles and it was still fast enough.
I think the problem he's describing comes from the fact that programmers like to build tools to make other tools. Give people a framework and they'll say "I can totally use this to make something someone else might do something cool with".
Perhaps it's some kind of desire to leave a legacy or make your mark it have something awesome on your resume, or just because nobody has any ideas for apps anymore that actually seem worth it to build.
We had layers of complexity and frameworks and embedded scripting on literal 8 bit game consoles and it was still fast enough.
I think the problem he's describing comes from the fact that programmers like to build tools to make other tools. Give people a framework and they'll say "I can totally use this to make something someone else might do something cool with".
Perhaps it's some kind of desire to leave a legacy or make your mark it have something awesome on your resume, or just because nobody has any ideas for apps anymore that actually seem worth it to build.