[andyjohnson0]

> I think that's one weird thing about the software field, whereby we keep moving to these shiny new things that we think are better than the tools of yesteryear, yet in the end there is only a marginal gain in productivity.

"Thought leaders" need to he constantly talking up the next new thing so that they can stay ahead of the herd on socia media.

Developers get bored, or worry that their career is stagnating, if they're not using the new shiny. Particularly if they pay attention to the thought leaders, or they're stuck building unglamorous crud apps.

And the software industry generally has a poor collective memory of tools and practices and experience from even the recent past. Contrast with more mature engineering disciplines, or architecture, medicine, etc. I'm not sure why this is.

[b3morales]

I do think there's a bit of a visibility bias here, though: plenty of us know that there's money and stability to be had with deeply competent knowledge of the "old" stuff. We just don't make weekly posts on $MEDIA about it.