I also want companies to either pursue vanilla tech stacks or aggressively retrain almost-qualified people for their special-snowflake systems. I think just sh

I also want companies to either pursue vanilla tech stacks or aggressively retrain almost-qualified people for their special-snowflake systems. I think just shoving people into tech is short-sighted. That's not what I want. That being said, much of American youth sees "business", law, medicine, and even entertainment (including sports) as a great way to succeed. We would do well to put engineering, especially IT, on that list.