It reminds me of this olognion piece:

https://www.theolognion.com/unreal-engine-5-is-meant-to-ridi...

That's not just hilarious, that's also pretty close to how I feel most of the time.

I mean, some people have built the Airbus A380.

On the other hand, last week, I created a test DB with the user "test" and the password "test". I couldn't connect to it, and after a long debugging session, noticed I misspelled "test".

So, yeah...

You can get a lot done when you're not re-inventing HTML dropdown form elements or replacing the Android date picker because some "stakeholder" just really, really needs them to look on-brand. And other low-value bullshit tasks done solely on the guesswork-hunch-feelings of someone whose job is to create new Jira tasks. See also: 90s development teams who made all kinds of things you'd expect a team 5x as large and a timeline twice as long for, today.

I’m imagining the insane work hours.