It will be just as sane for IT once venture capital dries out, and the signs of that eventually happening started arriving as early as in 2000s when companies like Google and Apple would intentionally try to inflate the so-called "startup culture" by buying some startups (mostly to stop what they were doing) and advertising that as success.

This continues, for now, because the available space is not yet all occupied.

The cryptocurrencies, despite many of them being scams, were one big breakthrough in it, for IT to be applied to movement of values for consumers, P2P and not B2B. That largely has happened, there are systems that you can use and they work, the scam danger doesn't negate that fact.

The AI, or what's being called that, is another big breakthrough. Universal helper bots are, honestly, what many people always wanted from having a PC.

These are both sort of terrain dominants that were not settled until they were. Colonization targets if you will.

One thing remains of what I can see, a common information medium as good as PSTN and radio. They built that in the 90s, then some rich jerks have made their fake committee "alternative" to W3C that has led the Web away from its central purpose. It's very interesting how all W3C standards are still good and clean, they've just stopped making them because of that hijacking of authority.

I mean, OK, looking at C++ standards, mechanisms similar to existing elsewhere still somehow work like that in IT.