> From a management perspective, I wonder if people find older developers miss obvious solutions that involve throwing small amounts of money and/or hardware at

> From a management perspective, I wonder if people find older developers miss obvious solutions that involve throwing small amounts of money and/or hardware at business problems, and instead turn to "clever" solutions that are costly in terms of extra developer time needed for developer and maintenance. Why do people feel the need to generalise about things developers of different ages do...? Knowing when to save on developer time by spending money in some form definitely seems to be a learned skill though.