You are right. It is a lazy comment. I would delete it if I could at this point but thats not possible.
It really comes about from my frustration. So much effort pushing into new tech and the result (at least as I and others in the comments here noted) is something reflective of pre-existing technology that has been around for decades.
I get that though enough of these exercises true innovation does emerge. However there is a whole lot of "re-inventing the wheel" in-between that which is frustrating as it seems to be prevalent.
It really comes about from my frustration. So much effort pushing into new tech and the result (at least as I and others in the comments here noted) is something reflective of pre-existing technology that has been around for decades.
I get that though enough of these exercises true innovation does emerge. However there is a whole lot of "re-inventing the wheel" in-between that which is frustrating as it seems to be prevalent.