[chrismarlow9]

The slow part as a senior engineer has never been actually writing the code. It has been:

- reviews for code

- asking stakeholders opinions

- SDLC latency (things taking forever to test)

- tickets

- documentations/diagrams

- presentations

Many of these require review. The review hell doesn't magically stop at Open source projects. These things happen internally too.

[bunderbunder]

And, hear me out here - perhaps for the sake of morale it makes sense to leave a smidge of the part of the job that actually attracts people to this profession in the first place on their plates. Otherwise we may find that, after the novelty wears off, we’re left with a net productivity dropoff because there’s not as much left to keep people motivated to do à good job of the remaining work.