[CM30]

Yeah, I definitely agree with these points. And I think quite a few of them come down to one simple thing:

There's a huge disconnect between what many developers wish they were doing and what many developers are doing. They wish they were at Google/Facebook/Amazon/whatever working on some complex greenfield project that'll change the world, they're instead working on CRUD apps for corporate clients, agencies and businesses with far less technical needs.

So their obsession with using microservices and modern JavaScript frameworks and complicated build processes and what not for everything comes down to them trying to turn B into A, even if the actual solutions they need don't actually require any of that complexity.