[sarchertech]

Clearly there’s a difference between building a bridge and getting customers to use your free app, but the vast majority of Engineers aren’t working in big infrastructure projects. Even the ones who do are competing with everyone else who bids on the project.

And in software there are plenty of cases where the 2nd or 3rd place product gets tons of sales even if it’s strictly worse in every category. There are so many things that impact market success that are completely out of the hands of product or engineering.