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This resonates because it is a perennial problem that anyone that works in a technical or hacker role is going to face. It is not an "attitude", it is a business reality rooted in economics. There is a direct conflict between people who want to innovate and people who want to simply streamline existing money making enterprises. Streamlining wins because it is lower risk. Innovation dies and then no more streamlining can be done. The innovators leave, one way or another. The business either becomes a cash cow or new innovative competitors kill it off.