It sounds like wherever you work/live there is a pretty toxic dev culture. Software development is primarily about managing complexity. Think about the mountai

It sounds like wherever you work/live there is a pretty toxic dev culture. Software development is primarily about managing complexity. Think about the mountain of abstraction after abstraction between your "new new thing" angular 2.0/react app and the machine instructions that are being executed in hardware. A huge amount of software work is done just to make your life as a developer simpler. Its crazy that so many willfully make their software more complex than it needs to be. Not adding unnecessary features is always a no-brainer. Do you really have time to waste building something no one will use? A good product person can help teams with less experienced engineers avoid building the most technically challenging feature that happens to be useless.