I have a 45 minute high speed train commute to a busy end-of-line station. I can sleep, read, work, or just stare out the window and think.

Same commute is probably twice as long by car during rush hour.

I still include Google results in my Searx.

Definitely miss the good ol’ days where it was optimized to give the best results. Same goes for Netflix recommendations back in the the DVD mailer days…

We have I-Root and K-Root in Europe, these are certainly used…

All the devs I know use SO…

In my experience, you actually need more people to maintain and extend existing software compared to the initial build out.

Usually because of scalability concerns, increasing complexity of the system and technical debt coming due.