Simple tools are not popular

Simple tools are not popular Simple things, especially in tech, are not popular. Some may be used silently behind the scene, but they are rarely visible or promoted. The reason is simple. It's impossible to create a business around them. You can't create an industry around a plain text file. There are no conferences, books, or presentations about primitive utilities. Those tools are simple, and they work. Nothing exciting. Hard to extract money from it. Complexity is a feature for the people who profit from it. Companies and developers can talk, explain, write about it, and build the whole ecosystem around it. If you create some simple format for sharing, syndicating content, or connection, it may attract a few enthusiasts, and some articles and comments pop up. Most likely, you will also get feature requests. But if you have a budget and create some complex nonsense like AT Protocol, you get into the news. People start building tools, libraries, and the entire ecosystem around that…