Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. At some point, software stopped being a tool and became a black hole. There’s a dashboard for your tasks, another for your team, yet another for sales, plus a few assorted for analytics. Just a few “lightweight” tools that were supposed to replace the heavy ones. A handful of subscriptions you vaguely remember signing up for during a free trial sprint six months ago. And somehow … work still feels harder than it used to. If your tech stack feels like a maze, you probably have simply too many tools. And you aren’t alone — there are hundreds of thousands of small businesses across the country drowning in software subscriptions. Let’s talk about why that happens, how to spot it and what to do instead. Every tool promises the same thing: save time, streamline operations, automate complexity. Individually, many of them do exactly that, but it becomes more challenging when they stack.…