The below is true; my field is vastly more complex than it was even 10 years ago. Back then, you could do ok in with a 110 IQ. Now good luck getting by with anything less than 130+.

And most of the complexity is completely pointless. It’s just stotting by those attempting to pseudo-professionalize IT and make it more exclusionary.

That is exactly the problem. Every tool now assumes you are a professional, full-time developer. This is a terrible assumption and harms the whole industry and ecosystem. This also makes security worse and harder to achieve effectively. Arguably, it helps large orgs (or at least harms them less) with a 5,000-person IT department but really hurts everyone else.

I’m good but I simply do not have time to learn 30 different development frameworks, APIs and IDEs to make something work. It’s just impossible. That you’re expected to write 100+ line PowerShell scripts and generate 500+ line JSON files for things that just used to be a setting somewhere is fucking insane. And that’s not even the worst of it.

And without exception, all of this is poorly-documented, flaky, and with nearly-useless error messages. The IT world is so much worse now than it was even a decade ago. And worsening all the time at an increasing rate.