Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting
The one thing you should understand is the average programmer is not a good programmer.The reason is simple.The average programmer is a newbie with little to no experience.It's like a pyramid or a triangle. There's more area or volume at the bottom than at the top.Every year, more new people arrive at the scene.New programmers are easily fooled by "shiny" objects.So, whatever place you join, there's a high likely hood that the culture at the place is dominated by what is considered popular, with little to no regard to what actually works well.It's different at each place, but almost every company I've been too has things setup in a way that's very painful and frustrating to work with. Every thing takes many steps. "Compiling" javascript takes 3 minutes. "Hot Module Reloading" takes 30 seconds and refreshes the page 5 times. You have to jump between 4 different repositories to fix a small bug. etc etc etc.If you are experienced and notice that things at your company are broken, you either try to advocate for fixing things or just leave out of desparation. So the organizational culture continues to be dominated by people with very little experience.If you are not experienced, you may just think that the "suck" you have to deal with on a day to day basis is just what progamming is like, and you might well decide to quit programming. It's hard not to think so when you have never seen a better version of how things can work.