Comment by reconnecting

I'm not talking about old computers themselves, but rather something that's mistakenly taken as nostalgia.

Things in the 90s were more straightforward because supply chains and business processes were much shorter and less complex. What people interpret as nostalgia might actually reflect a recognition that systems/products genuinely were more efficient before they became increasingly layered with intermediaries and dependencies.

An illustration of these dependencies and layers is debt - the mounting complexity parallels the mounting debt levels.