I don’t think it’s about privileged material conditions. We, IT people, had enjoyed a significant uptick in quality of life over the past twenty or so years. We’re still proles, mind you, but the ruling class had deemed it necessary to toss us some crumbs. Did it lead to anything positive? Hard to tell. But now our “privileged” position is being revoked and it leads to severe crisis of “faith” for the lack of a better word.

Overall I don’t expect tech culture to improve overmuch until the mode of production changes - until socialism replaces capitalism. Only then could necessity-based development replace the current profit-driven motive. Until then - bloatware will be our loyal companion.