I’ve been working in IT in various roles for more than 12 years, and I witnessed and experienced how release cycles became faster and faster over time. Seeing recent (and not so recent) trends in competitiveness, degradation of attention span, advertisement of short-term satisfaction, etc., I wonder where this increase in speed will lead in terms of software quality, end-user experience and satisfaction, engineer burnout, and whether it is possible to slow down a little.
What Do We Want? Anything! When Do We Want It? Yesterday!
Two things come to my mind regarding this topic: shortened attention span and the want for short-term perceived satisfaction.