Exactly my thoughts too.  Code inflation[1] is a huge problem today.  There was a day when one person could understand the whole UNIX kernel... now with millions of lines of code in Linux and FreeBSD I don't think this is possible anymore and definitely it is not fun.  That is why you see more and more paid code in Linux -- who else would like to debug this bloated monster it became just for fun... like back in the days.  

Programming these days (especially in bussiness sector with projects written in C++ or Java) is not fun and I feel sorry for those poor people that must maintain such projects.

We need to come back to simple and minimalistic systems, otherwise we will all be buried soon underneath terabytes of unmaintainable bloated code...

--Andy

[1] Code Inflation, Gerald J Holzmann