Not sure what you are doing but i don't think things got worse. They just changed.
Compare the situation on the web.
The days of Ie 6, polyfills and all that garbage are mostly gone. Browsers are an order of magnitude better than ever.
On the other hand you got the frontend js situation which is broken beyond belief. I dare you to pick any js framework and try to update it a version...
If you skip that and use the old and tested stuff, things are just way better than 10 years ago. Just compare Rails or Django to Jsp...
The god awful PHP std lib is still the same, but they clobbered some sort of object orientation and static typing onto PHP. So its as bad as ever and the libraries reflect that.
But in general whole library situation improved massively. Nowadays i can file a bug report on Github, or just fork it, get it fixed and make a merge request.
Back in the day you had to join someones IRC, talk to someone else who had the stuff on its cvs or whatever (hopefully) and then you wasted your day just fiddling around waiting for some random person to build a binary with some obscure version of a c compiler.
So there is more crap but the good old stuff matured and got way better.
There are better ways to discover problems for example it became quite the norm to use version control, a CI and automated tests..
Compare the situation on the web.
The days of Ie 6, polyfills and all that garbage are mostly gone. Browsers are an order of magnitude better than ever.
On the other hand you got the frontend js situation which is broken beyond belief. I dare you to pick any js framework and try to update it a version...
If you skip that and use the old and tested stuff, things are just way better than 10 years ago. Just compare Rails or Django to Jsp...
The god awful PHP std lib is still the same, but they clobbered some sort of object orientation and static typing onto PHP. So its as bad as ever and the libraries reflect that.
But in general whole library situation improved massively. Nowadays i can file a bug report on Github, or just fork it, get it fixed and make a merge request.
Back in the day you had to join someones IRC, talk to someone else who had the stuff on its cvs or whatever (hopefully) and then you wasted your day just fiddling around waiting for some random person to build a binary with some obscure version of a c compiler.
So there is more crap but the good old stuff matured and got way better.
There are better ways to discover problems for example it became quite the norm to use version control, a CI and automated tests..