&quot;I don&#x27;t think its the majority outside of Silicon Valley though. I am very far removed from the Valley so the examples given look nothing like I&#x27;ve personally seen anywhere but I can see how that can be the case in the Valley from what I hear&#x2F;see in the &quot;news.&quot;&quot;<p>Whereas I hadn&#x27;t heard of the problem in the Valley as they&#x27;re always riding one wave or fad after another. The people that report the issues I described are almost exclusively outside the Valley or startup scene mostly working for mid-sized to large companies without much IT innovation. Reading comments on many programming and job sites makes me think they&#x27;re the majority (or just vocal majority).<p>Might be different in your area or the types of companies you work for. Most I know in banking, retail, logistics, manufacturing, hospitality, and services firms... a huge chunk of job market... do CRUD style apps and have lots of legacy systems they expand on rather than replace. Lots of boring work.<p>Does vary by industry, area, and technology stack, though. Interesting to see yours is mostly interesting, custom code instead of throw-together apps many get stuck with. Honestly, though, I think the SO use is less about CRUD than the information overload of various libraries and frameworks where people constantly run into issues due to lack of understanding&#x2F;experience.