[emodendroket]

I don't have any substantive evidence for this, but I suspect you'd see very different characteristics among people who work on SharePoint and, say, MVC/WebAPI.

[UK-AL]

Vastly. People who develop sharepoint tend business focused people or ex IT people.

People who develop in MVC tend to be developers.

[emodendroket]

That explains why all the information you can find about SharePoint development is so muddled I guess.