Very good points! c) goes hand in hand with two other things: many managers are former programmers with little or no appreciation for good product and good UX.

Very good points! c) goes hand in hand with two other things: many managers are former programmers with little or no appreciation for good product and good UX. And second, romanian designers are still pretty much artists, drawing candy stuff. I know some very good designers with good UX skills, but they are a minority. Only where you have good managers, good devs, and good designers thinking solely about the people using the product, you'll have a community that gives birth to real software professionals. We're still in the age of Angular v React, Dawn of Outsourcing.