Indeed. The scary part is that eventually the consequences of this will propagate up to someone important and powerful enough to do something about it, and then

Indeed. The scary part is that eventually the consequences of this will propagate up to someone important and powerful enough to do something about it, and then I worry that there will be legal limitations put on the industry. I believe there are already substantial rumblings in this direction given the current state of cybersecurity, so this new age of recklessness only stands to hasten it. I am really hoping that we can avoid such strenuous regulations, lest highly functional autodidacts and anti-authoritarians find themselves shut out of yet another high-paying, at-least-semi-merit-based career. The evisceration of the legal profession should stand as a warning to us. We do not want the actually good and useful people, who generally have low tolerance for the systemic brutality of rote learning, edged out by status seekers who have no real value to offer but can occupy space in a room for the requisite time to earn their certifications. And on the note about microservices, you couldn't be more right. These architectures are such nightmares to debug that special transaction tracing tooling had to be invented to ease the process, and you have to either go through and update all 90 of your services to use these or go through a centralized service broker (now called a "microservice mesh" so that people don't catch on) to append tracing tags to each request. Please get real here, people. There are times when this kind of stuff may be useful (if you're running Google or Twitter, for example). That does NOT apply to your small company of 100 employees. You are only making things harder on yourselves.