[syndicatedjelly]

> Remove the managers and the bureaucracy and the things that make programming hard and likely prone to burn-out still exist.

I don't get burned out working on personal projects. They are written exactly how I want them to be, and can be worked on at a leisurely pace. They don't have scaffolding and ladders littered all over the place, which is equivalent to the output detritus of middle managers and scrum masters. They don't have some coach shouting from the top to "go faster", while they recline on a lawn chair.

Working on a project as a solo dev or in a self-organized group is like scaling a rock wall. You are free to choose how to climb the wall. You can do so without a harness. You can sit at the base and sip on lemonade. You can walk over to a different wall and stare at it for an hour, before deciding not to climb it.

This is compared to being forced to climb the rickety scaffolding and ladders put in place by "people who know better", unable to detach your harness for fear that you'll fall to your death. Even though you can clearly see a much better path to the finish line.

Is one approach theoretically safer than the other? Sure. But when you're bouldering a 20 foot wall with thick pads at the base, all that scaffolding just looks silly.