I’m curious what you would classify as a hard problem. Personally, I think writing a good, easy to use Python package manager that both gains adoption and addresses the myriad of corner cases is a hard problem.
I work in scientific software. I tend to view really hard problems as problems where you don't know the solution, and don't even have a blueprint for how could be solved.
Writing a package manager is hard in some sense, but you have an idea of what it needs to do, what features it should have, and what success ultimately looks like.
But there are problems, large and small, which require new thinking and leaps of faith. There are people working on these, of course, but sometimes I feel they are being neglected.
(and people working on those problems probably make 10-25% of what many FANG developers make...)
Writing a package manager is hard in some sense, but you have an idea of what it needs to do, what features it should have, and what success ultimately looks like.
But there are problems, large and small, which require new thinking and leaps of faith. There are people working on these, of course, but sometimes I feel they are being neglected.
(and people working on those problems probably make 10-25% of what many FANG developers make...)