Are FPGA's getting too complex?

Altera are only going down these roads because customers are asking for them, and Xilinx are doing the same things too.

With more complexity I think it is allowing engineers to specialise in specific FPGA aspects. Up until recently, I think a lot of people doing the FPGA design were also the same engineers doing the board design and schematics. But more and more these two roles are being separated. I myself have been working in FPGAs since I graduated (nearly 9 years ago) and I have done minimal schematic entry (I hate it anyway). I have done a simple backplane (with many circuits copied and pasted from another) and a small voltage level changing test PCB. The rest of my time has been in VHDL/synthesis/fitting/time specs, with some time interfacing with algorithms teams in matlab.

It's also coming from the other direction, a lot of engineers called "software" are moving into the world of QSYS and system design.

There are still companies out there looking for engineers that can do everything, even using all the latest tools. But these tend to be the smaller companies who can only afford to take on one new engineer to manage entire projects. Larger companies are already separating out firmware design, board design, software, unit test and verification teams.

In this time I have never used QSys until now.