Here are a few that I did not see listed by others:
1. Automatic device discovery and driver installation (e.g., with USB devices (also USB device categories, etc.)). Instead of trying to find a driver, things just worked.
2. Automatic updates. Keeping everything updated, largely, fell into the background.
3. Graphical integrated development environments (IDEs) for software development. I realize editors can be contentious, but tab completion of variable names, automatic identification of methods within scope, syntax highlighting, easily dropping breakpoints, etc. are, in my experience, wonderful improvements on productivity.
4. What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) text / image editors. Thankfully, I did not spend much time in the prior era, but it was, at times, maddening to get something to format correctly.
5. Ad blockers / reader modes. Again, I know these can be contentious, but, for me, these reformatting services are sometimes the only way to make some websites practically readable.
I strongly second:
-The rise of memory-managed languages (e.g., JAVA, C#, etc) with pretty robust default library sets, especially for string manipulation, graphics, and network operations.
-Moving map software, especially for mobile GPS mapping.
-Spreadsheet software.
-Being able to easily search for answers to fairly technical programming problems, compiler errors, etc. along with better access to online documentation.