[GianFabien]

Short answer: YES :-(

I think there is a confluence of lots of reasons. From what you describe you seem to be working in areas where there are far too many technical options, frameworks, tools, utilities. I think that expectations of what technology can accomplish are way too high and demanding unrealistically fast development cycles.

In my experience, most managements are total morons. Greed, ego, hubris, psychopathy being the operating principles. Absolutely no interest in the workers' welfare, etc. To them developers and IT staff are a fungible resource.

But you have it good. Spare a thought for the IT staff keeping an Oracle, SAP, MS or IBM sourced and Big 5 consulting firm configured system running on 10 year old hardware located in a broom cupboard.

[vladfr]

Omg, that does bring a different perspective. I've heard of the dreaded broom cupboard and you're right, I don't want to go near it.