Would you care to review the social and geopolitical impacts of social media, how walled gardens have destroyed the original promise of the internet, the financial and labor impacts of Amazon's near-monopoly on online sales, crypto's blistering track record at separating dumb from money at the modest cost of the energy consumption of a medium sized industrial nation, VR & AR's notable lack of life/world/job/industry altering implementations, vendor lock-in, the industry's holy war perpetual motion machine on thick vs thin clients, a few hundred waves of clients having their investment cash set on fire by dev shops platforming on tech only truly suitable for a FAANG because "it's the great new thing", FOSS's implosion into a free labor pool for private companies, or the successive waves of failure of software .orgs claiming to improve everything from healthcare workflows to the functioning of municipal governments by adding software? No? You can take your strawman and go.

>> software has been a dumpster fire of grift, hype, bullshit claims, and labor issues for at least couple decades now

I absolutely agree there's a bunch of crap. I argue that there's a bunch of really excellent good things in there too. (I'll add rocket landings to the list because they are so insanely cool.)

With regard to crypto; it's just the latest in histories long list of get-rich-quick schemes. I think we can ignore that. (Human greed is human greed).

I think most of your list boils down to a mix of shitty humans, the Free market in action, and things playing out to their natural conclusion in an extreme capitalistic society. A lot of the things (not all) are very localised to the US.

I'd hear an example of really excellent good things. Privatization of space exploration doesn't make the list for a diversity of reasons, not the least of which being kessler syndrome is a thing and handing the keys to orbit material to private industry has -very- predictable outcomes.