>They fall into the trap of valuing breadth over depth (as depth has diminishing returns to time-spent) that they ironically never become an expert in anything

>They fall into the trap of valuing breadth over depth (as depth has diminishing returns to time-spent) that they ironically never become an expert in anything to a point where their expertise is truly unique. Go look at some hilariously long job requirements and tell me there is not an economical reason for breadth-over-depth engineers. Following a specialization is risky. Going after unique expertise is risky (it probably isn't unique anyway, just rare). These are true for tech because everything moves so quickly. You don't hear about the people that tried to specialize and failed to do so. You hear a bit more about people who specialized but the company/committee responsible for the tech decides to deprecate it.