alt Hacker NewsPeople desperately want 'the plateau' to be true because it means our jobs would be safe and we could call ourselves experts again. If the ground is keep moving then no one is truly an expert. There is just no enough time to achieve expertise when the paradigm shifts every six months.
That statement is only true if you're ignoring higher order patterns. I called the orchestration trend and the analytic hurdle trends back in April of last year.