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I feel you. I hate this field these days. The churn is largely unnecessary, but comes from people cargo culting what they see coming from a handful of super successful companies that aren’t at all representative of what most development is. Add to it the glut of web developers that are generally disinterested in actually learning how systems work and insist on unbelievably deep and fragile layers of crap to insulate them from thinking while they glue programs together as fast as possible. I wouldn’t say the field of software engineering is cursed, but we do have a signal to noise ratio problem if you follow sites like this one. I recommend my approach: avoid this site as much as you can, and avoid the comments when you can’t resist visiting.