Nope, not even in the same ballpark, er, playground.

TL;DR: Nobody is solving real problems for users, that's hard. So they're solving substitute problems that are easier for themselves.

The conceit is the "playing with themselves" metaphor: I.T. managers are building themselves dollhouses, and I.T. developers are building tech playgrounds, then just playing with themselves.

None of the above are listening to or delivering what users actually need.

// Interesting take, but author after meandering down a rant wasn't sure where to go with it so just sort of stopped writing mid-weeds.