[thin_carapace]

indeed sweeping industry-wide conclusions are often drawn upon technology. however these generally apply to web/apps only. for example, in this thread we have someone extolling the virtues of not reviewing code. this is probably correct in the context of web/apps, but doesn't hold true otherwise. similarly the linked article talks about the frustration of being forced to merge known bad code - acceptable behaviour when the product is pictures on a screen, otherwise i have not observed this behaviour to be systemic

[sublinear]

That's also just as untrue. Why wouldn't most B2B services outside of SV be web-based?

There's a much bigger and broader economic world out there than HN usually discusses these past few years. We used to hear more about it before LLMs flooded the front page.

[thin_carapace]

my point was a lateral move from yours, I didn't intend to associate business outside of SV with non web based business