Worse is Better

As I was reading Java has lost its aura of invincibility it reminded me of the classic article Worse is Better. As a user of a number of frameworks it really kills me to see the vast over engineering behind them. It almost seems there are revolts (mostly occurring through open source) that are providing alternatives. E.g. PHP, Ruby, Spring, Hibernate, etc. At the end of the day these battles are ultimately decided by where the innovation occurs.