I wouldn't be that harsh. In BigCorp ©® just asking this question more or less puts you in the top 20%, as nobody cares anymore...

This is nothing new. Replace HTML by excel. JS by vba, and you had the same issue years ago. The lack of developer time versus the need of people to do stuff.

The irony is that even truely engineered solutions do not far much better. How many bugs in Linux or NTFS or Oracle or drivers or words? Millions.

And that's not even the main problem. Closed systems, concurrent standards, crappy specs and brainless managers are.

I respectfully disagree.

There so much resources online. Between youtube lectures, so, github, and online interpreters (like jsfiddle) alone, i simply can't keep up.

And in recent years there has been stuff like rust, meteor, datomic, streams, transpilers, and tooling improved bounds and leaps (jetbrains/vs, git, jira/trello, webpack, linters).

Diving in a book was a different experience, you learnt how to do stuff before understanding the why. For me the main issue is more sorting through the click-baitey blogs and the sheer amount of stuff. But for god sake, now there are programming languages dedicated to help kids learn. I can't tell if the quality of young programmers did improve thou, as my sample size of padawans is way too small.

Computer science itself is slow moving, we might get a shiny new js framework each week, but fundamentals are quite engraved. Allocation (immutability/concurrency), language types (functional, imperative, etc) have seen no real evolution. Few have the opportunity to implement the real new stuff like weak ia.

I don't know what programming language you are using, but i doubt you are "stuck with 2009 problems", and I have a hard time understanding your feeling, or what you envision the situation should be.