[austincheney]

There is a shortage of talent but it’s self-induced. There is no common baseline of competency. So when talent seems rare or absent what is cheaper: waiting for talent to materialize or lowering the level of acceptance.

The problem with that is that the new lower level of acceptance only provides temporary relief for the current shortage. Later developers see this new lower level of acceptance the same way prior developers saw the prior level of acceptance and thus the bar must be lowered further because the shortage rate remains unchanged.