I'll offer a counter, perhaps, unpopular opinion. I too, have found myself at times mentally fighting against what appears to be a tidal wave of modern software

I'll offer a counter, perhaps, unpopular opinion. I too, have found myself at times mentally fighting against what appears to be a tidal wave of modern software techniques. But I don't do that anymore, these days I try to embrace them using an ecological perspective. They won't all be great ideas, some will prevail while others fail, some will even survive well while at the same time layering complexity and loss of performance on the industry. However, I now see them all as being necessary experiments to further the technological advancements of the industry. Even if they are bug ridden, security nightmares, they all work to provide selective pressure and refinement by the industry in the aggregate. Upon close inspection, it looks like a mess, but if you back out and see it akin to our own bio-diversity and natural selection processes, you may begin to appreciate the wide variety of techniques and talents we have to choose from and that over time we should expect a refinement of our abilities.