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by JackMorgan 4426 days ago
I'd guess that is because most developers ARE beginners, right up till they retire/career shift.

If we were even half experts, maybe that would change, but in a field where "anyone can be a developer" you will see a long tail of low skill.

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Not sure why you were downvoted.

Industry routinely degrades skill and experience in favor of "just ship." New frameworks are continually churned out with the implicit promise that they'll fix everything (except their own lack of composition). Custom development is viewed as expensive when someone else can come along and paste several libs together, then apply duct tape to hold it all together. Domain modeling is viewed as esoteric. Testing is still hotly debated.

...I don't want to go on.