Is it possible for tech to "jump the shark"?

Yes. It happens all the time. You would usually call the features "gimmicks".

Having learned programming in the 80s (as a teen), I would say it was much easier back then. Programmers have made things vastly more complicated these days.

Yay another stupid metric to game!

This will lead to so much enshitification.

That's the problem though. People want one language to be The One (tm) and that's just not possible. Your The One (tm) isn't mine.

You don't have to use all the features of C#. I make my living at it and don't touch a lot of them. The issue with C# is culture. They went full in on blog driven development so there's way too many people who will yell this is the way to do things this week.

It's true. You will incur the wrath of C#'ers if your simple ToDo list app doesn't have a ToDoListItemRepositoryServiceFactory.cs and a minimum of 4 separate layers in which one must update 20 files because you added a property to one class.

Don't get me wrong, I still love C#/.NET. I use it everyday, but my god, has Swift been a breath of fresh air. The Swift community, when not whining about Swift UI, has been much less dogmatic in my experience.

MS poached him (and was even sued for it - that's how egregious it was) to create a Java killer because they had issues with Java.

This. The gap in E2E is the point at which I type in clear text and the point at which I read clear text. Those can be exploited.

How does one even come about creating a thought like this?

Sounds ... like the mafia.

You MUST use our billing system. Oh, btw, because you are using our billing system, we get 30%.

Seriously, if people are willing to learn all this, they can easily learn Linux and simply tell the corporate overlords to fuck right off.