I've seen a lot of IT crap in the last 10 years (retailers, insurances, media companies) but I guess unless you're lifting heavy things (as maybe in millisecond

I've seen a lot of IT crap in the last 10 years (retailers, insurances, media companies) but I guess unless you're lifting heavy things (as maybe in millisecond-daytrading, nuclear power plants, defense) it takes a really long time to "let them pay for the crap they do/did" except for high burn or poor fail-startups. IT became more and more a commodity. Quality is nice but doesn't matter unless it's exploding. There are many ways of doing it "good enough" even if it's rubbish from our point of view. regarding the "ego promoters": For me it looks like currently the trend is to "migrate" from IT to "Life Coach" and selling your "make money fast" show to the community, which already suffers from the described decline of appreciation. It's like the sales, psychology and stock trading gurus we all know: They have their time and in the end their star is usually waning fast BUT the next one is already preparing to enter the stage…