Mainstream software development has been gutless and captured by MBA culture for decades at this point. Just like all other aspects of culture: video games, music, television. We can only optimize for one thing, money, and everything is downstream of that. It seems quaint to even point that out nowadays, since we've been living in the rubble of creativity for so long.

That's not to say these things don't exist but as always you need to go out of your way to find them, because people who are prioritizing the creative act typically aren't going to be prioritized in our attention-focused slop world.