re: Anybody else besides me sick of technology?

As people become more computer literate, I think expectations about how well software operates have declined. Now that people have some idea of how to deal with crashes, slowness, etc., software creators are leaning on them more to do so.

The user experience typical of software and web sites today would have made the end users of 25 years ago just shut the damn computer down and go read a book or water their plants or something.

Concrete example: the first time I tried to use an e-commerce site was around 1999. I remember selecting my state from a drop-down, and then noticing that the computer was (quite conspicuously) hitting the network again to get a list of cities. My thought was, "this is really garbage and I don't think this kind of 'application' will ever really supplant the desktop .EXE as something people use a lot." Of course that attitude is laughably different from how people think now.