idk man I already got a couple hobbies and one serious domain of expertise I'm just tryna get work done and get paid here. might be a shame to you but I'm so grateful I don't have to dig through a compiler manual or whatever to do my job.
There might come a day where companies believe that the value of slapping a few potentially buggy libraries together is not worth $xxx,xxx per year. I for one kind of hope that companies return to buying/contracting well-defined finish products with small external studios rather than throwing money at W2 developers like us. I think the software quality will be higher, and the risk of our jobs being outsourced lower, wherher rightfully so or not.