[TheAceOfHearts]

Most developers probably don't care and just want to get paid. Beyond that, I imagine you're not usually empowered to make big changes unless you're relatively senior, and even if you decide to be the kind of developer that's always striving towards self improvement your job is unlikely to reward you for your skill development. I think there's just a lot of diminishing returns.

Have you ever tried playing a competitive multiplayer game? There's people that will play games for thousands of hours without ever improving.

Sometimes I think people encounter bottlenecks and they're not sure how to overcome them.

[red-iron-pine]

> Most developers probably don't care and just want to get paid. Beyond that, I imagine you're not usually empowered to make big changes unless you're relatively senior, and even if you decide to be the kind of developer that's always striving towards self improvement your job is unlikely to reward you for your skill development.

Bingo. I got a release coming up, I just need to ship this -- ain't got no time for fancy stuff, and higher-ups don't want fancy or flourish, just make it work. And even if there is room for trying something new, it probably doesn't matter if the users DGAF about the new feature.