[jongjong]

Agreed. Financial success and career progression as a software dev has little to do with your talent. It's more about luck and BS ability. Most successful or fast-growing big tech companies can afford to brute-force every problem by throwing tons of developers at them. Most developers tend to produce code which just barely works and is way overcomplicated but it doesn't matter because most fast-growing companies don't have any issues hiring large numbers of developers to patch up the many mistakes by brute force.