[fardo]

I think there’s a tension between the tinkerer, blogger and hobbyist side of the field, and anonymous 9–to-5 workhorse line of business programming in this discussion.

The core reason everyone uses it seems to me to be essentially the same reason the former groups hate it - it’s what everyone else does, it’s an incredibly square and “day-job”-esque approach to one’s tooling and architecture, it often reeks of bureaucracy, compartmentalization, and organizational superstructures often unrelated to the technical work, dictated primarily by managerial fiefdoms and needs to organizationally coordinate, and it’s a well-defined space with extremely predictable solutions and headaches, and therefore has very little excitement or novelty to offer.