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The analysis of maintenance budgets is depressingly accurate. Especially as tech companies get older (and they age surprisingly fast), it's quite startling to see how most of them become organizationally indifferent to various small to medium glitches in established products.

I can see why a lot of people working in tech will focus weekend/break energy on side projects (woodworking; solo sports; playing in a band) where exquisite craft is everything.