[saidajigumi]

To a large extent, I think this is the nigh-inevitable outcome of the corporate world's entire take on open source. Open source has been a hugely successful way of distributing code cost centers, which is how we got here. Yet as many have noted, there's no social or economic model for supporting that work much less paying down its tech debt. Beyond a few Major Frameworks with substantial corporate backing, it's pretty grim.

As an aside, I'm not about to blame folks who came up through bootcamps. I've known too many outstanding devs from those backgrounds, and it's clearly enabled many solid devs to enter the field who would otherwise have been excluded. (I've also met a lot of folks with CS degrees who could give fck all about critical code infrastructure concerns.)

Likewise, for decades we've been striving to build languages, platforms, and tools that support powerful abstraction and code reuse. Somewhat amazingly to me, we've realized some of those goals. So I think the problem also isn't devs working at "glue code" level – at some point we must* work at higher abstractions to get useful work done. Reinventing the wheel (or $datastructure) gets old. Again, I'd return to noting that the foundations are rotten, and the age-old bugbear of complexity management has only gotten worse.