doomerism at the society level which overrides individual freedoms definitely occurs: covid lockdowns, takeover of private business to fund/supply the world wars, gov mandates around "man made" climate change.
patching it after the fact is definitely needed. same way I use a plugin to filter out curse words because when it comes to your brain, garbage in = garbage out. patching "news" stories after the fact will never be perfect though because half the problem with "journalism" is omission of facts, not just biased half-truths or opinions.
yep, the older you are the better you see through this nonsense. first it was global cooling - fail, then global warming - fail, now climate change which is a mighty convenient catch-all term to be used to justify whatever fake solution is being proposed.
that's great for you. at my company devops are still doing monthly releases and unable to deploy single microservices because all the services are too interconnected.
perhaps the difference is that attitude is fine when building hobby or saas apps adding no real value to the world however that's not the type of behavior we'd expect to see for engineers having responsibility for critical systems dealing with finance, health, etc.
not a red flag at all..as long as they are competent at dev work. Many devs just want to dev and have no interest in taking on lead responsibilities, architecture, negotiating with product owners, attending lots of unproductive meetings, etc.
"During the meeting, which is known in internal Amazon lingo as a “fishbowl” meeting, Jassy declined to share data that motivated his decision to require employees to return to the office. The CEO told his charges it was a “judgment” call."
This is a well-known criticism of the game though. Even putting rune mgmt and crafting aside, after dinging a new level, you should be hitting up the vendor and upgrading/selling gear so that you can deal with enemies at your new level effectively. And you do that process x4 because you are managing 4 characters. I personally didn't mind the ceremony too much but I can definitely see how some people would be put off by it.