"But what is the solution ? Should a good programmer dumb down his program for the sake of average ones to come ?" Sadly, I've seen this. I worked for a compa

"But what is the solution ? Should a good programmer dumb down his program for the sake of average ones to come ?" Sadly, I've seen this. I worked for a company where some really smart people wrote a kick-ass fast, lightweight, and powerful Web framework in Java. It was sweet, ran great, and was making money like crazy driving Web apps. Company ends up getting bought, and the new owners decide that Web apps are now to be built using J2EE (as it was called then) with WAR files, EJBs, and all that shit. Why? Plug-and-play Java coders FTW. Seems the last thing they wanted to have to count on was having smart, motivated developers. (By coincidence, most of the smart, motivated developers ended up leaving shortly thereafter.)