https://xkcd.com/1319/

As software developers, which many of us are here on HN, we tend to try and automate everything, but it has the caveat of ongoing maintenance and the initial grunt work. (The initial investment could possibly cost more than simply doing things by hand, as-well as second order effects such as maintenance).

So we have all this software (FLOSS or otherwise) at our disposal created by other people to make our lives easier, yet we're always looking for some new tool or magic bullet to make life easier, or creating software that supposedly makes things smoother, but my question is; is our life actually smoother?

Is life easier because of software and are we less stressed about life because of it?

Because I've analyzed the current situation, and it seems we prioritize software-seeking behavior and trying to automate literally everything we can, often to our detriment (burnout etc).

If software is supposed to make life easy, why are we stressed?