[CyberRabbi]

Great post. One of the major problems is that software engineering is saturated with green devs who recently transitioned from hobbyist coding and don’t fully understand the responsibilities of being a professional. Hobbyist projects are rarely held to external constraints. Usually when the hobbyist dislikes the code he has thus far written, he will rewrite it instead of iterating on it because he has that luxury since nothing depends on his project. Unfortunately in the real world, we have to consider other factors aside from what the author prefers to work on.

This hobbyist mindset is damaging to the software engineering profession in a myriad of other ways.