[erik_seaberg]

Boring codebases should be generated, not maintained.

Codebases become boring because bad tools require a lot of repetition and meaningless boilerplate (which also encourages mistakes). Experience with bad tools is much less valuable because they can’t amplify my time and effort. If a job did not allow me to maintain valuable and marketable skills, they would have to compensate me a lot for creating a résumé gap and making future job searches harder.

Incidentally I also found this to be sort of a drawback with Google. Experience with completely proprietary platforms also has little value outside the one company where they’re available.