It's only easier if the complexity of what you write these days remains the same.
I started with Basic on Z80 as a kid, continued with Pascal and C++ on Dos, and these days I'm writing microservices running in Kubernetes Clusters. I did desktop programming on Windows, systems programming on Linux, games, old fashioned MVC Web apps.
I feel that what we deal with today are several order of magnitude more complex and harder than what we had in 80s and early 90s. At that time the most difficult thing was finding information and documentation and maybe trying something for the first time without prior examples. Now we have to fight complexity.
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It's only easier if the complexity of what you write these days remains the same.
I started with Basic on Z80 as a kid, continued with Pascal and C++ on Dos, and these days I'm writing microservices running in Kubernetes Clusters. I did desktop programming on Windows, systems programming on Linux, games, old fashioned MVC Web apps.
I feel that what we deal with today are several order of magnitude more complex and harder than what we had in 80s and early 90s. At that time the most difficult thing was finding information and documentation and maybe trying something for the first time without prior examples. Now we have to fight complexity.