I think this sentiment rears its head a little more in the videogame industry than in others, because such a huge number of people have the experience of gettin

I think this sentiment rears its head a little more in the videogame industry than in others, because such a huge number of people have the experience of getting extremely familiar with a piece of software as a user that they automatically start saying things like "if I built this, I'd change X." People start thinking like this about games when they have no development experience whatsoever. When they're kids. When they decide games are cool and they'd really love to get paid to make them. It's pretty common to hear a kid say they want to make video games when they grow up, but it's pretty rare to hear one say they want to make customer engagement analytics dashboards. So I think the pool of people for whom this is a "dream job" and who get slapped with the realities of development on a big team is much larger for games than for other types of software. I'm sure there are some kids looking at GMail and daydreaming about how much better it would be if they were in charge, but it's a heck of a lot fewer than those who are daydreaming about building the next Call of Duty or whatever. But you're right, this sentiment isn't unique to the game industry; I think we just hear it more from there.