This rings very true as an industry. We are all extremely busy, producing billions of lines of code, and yet the software around us isn't really getting any better. What we'd need instead is concerted simplification. But that ain't gonna happen.
I've been thinking about that recently too. The original drive behind the whole "worse is better" movement was that the software should remain simple and solve a simple problem. It's better for the software to do one small thing well than get bloated with unneeded features.
In a world where any change I want is a prompt away, writing high quality, simple software becomes an exercise in conscientious restraint.