Maybe once we lift the abstractions from the clutches of the Von Neumann architecture and reintroduce spatial and sensory mechanisms to our programming environments? Especially with server-client applications, the underlying topologies are often ad-hoc and brittle, which contributes to the complexity in sneaky ways. Jaron Lanier, a pioneer of VR, has a concept of "phenotropic programming" which is almost like OOP taken to the extreme - objects can only sense and act on each other in a virtual world akin to the real one [0].
If you want to really fall down a rabbit hole, Alan Kay has been espousing similar themes for years. He of course was the driving force behind Smalltalk, which did things in the 70s that still seem hard to do. Look at the examples built by middle schoolers in [1] - super impressive stuff! I personally believe OOP got a really bad rap by the bastardizations of C++ and Java, and a principled reframing of it may be what takes us to the next level of programming.
If you want to really fall down a rabbit hole, Alan Kay has been espousing similar themes for years. He of course was the driving force behind Smalltalk, which did things in the 70s that still seem hard to do. Look at the examples built by middle schoolers in [1] - super impressive stuff! I personally believe OOP got a really bad rap by the bastardizations of C++ and Java, and a principled reframing of it may be what takes us to the next level of programming.
[0] https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-why-gordian-s...
[1] https://www.dgsiegel.net/files/refs/Kay,%20Goldberg%20-%20Pe...