[sph]

So, in your metaphor, you never were an artist. You were just a poser.

What I find cringeworthy is that it seems the entire industry is filled with posers and I didn’t learn this fact until now.

As mentioned previously, I just wish the ‘posers’ chose a new job title for themselves rather than coopting the name of software engineer, so there is an easy way to tell each other apart. But passing for someone one really isn’t is the modus operandi of the poser.