Also hardware continues to improve at a rate fast enough that we can just let it chug through software issues for a long time without significant perceived issues.
This is exactly what I was going to say. People only make things to the constraints they’re given. If you reduce the constraints they’re not going to make anything any better. There’s no reason for a modern calculator designer to write stuff in assembly if they don’t have to.
Also hardware continues to improve at a rate fast enough that we can just let it chug through software issues for a long time without significant perceived issues.
This is exactly what I was going to say. People only make things to the constraints they’re given. If you reduce the constraints they’re not going to make anything any better. There’s no reason for a modern calculator designer to write stuff in assembly if they don’t have to.