Seems like a lousy industry to be in. Lower wages, lower expectations, shooting themself in the foot.

Seems that unlike software devs, hardware devs don't have a say, they're merely drones to their managers. In software, lead dev will say that they need this linter, and his superior will have to either provide or argue. But it seems that ib hardware, management will just say "no", end of storg. You're not getting anywhere with this attitude.

This can also be so in software dev - in defunct bigcos.