Well, that's an effect of experience. You don't just become a better programmer with experience, you become better at software development. Better handling stre

Well, that's an effect of experience. You don't just become a better programmer with experience, you become better at software development. Better handling stress, better understanding requirement, gathering requierment, better navigating political corporate structure, better explaining yourself, better defending yourself, ... and yes, better getting your environment sorted. That said, the specific point you raised is interesting because I was having the same problem at work. Except it was caused by automation. We have automated pipeline for everything, zero downtime deployment, containers, ... all of that is working very well - so well that there is just no enough big stuff to do so that newcomer on the project can build enough experience with the pipeline to master it. The best people achieve is some sort of very rudimentary debugging capability, earned from the monthly minor tweak the system require. Basically either you build similar pipeline on another project, something that is extremely unfrequent, or you missed the train.