Developers that build a new thing are disproportionately valued over developers who improve or maintain old things. The formers will be the wunderkinds of the

Developers that build a new thing are disproportionately valued over developers who improve or maintain old things. The formers will be the wunderkinds of the organization and referred to as "rock stars" and "10x-ers" despite the quality of the work that they put out. The latter will have to fight for promotions and be denigrated as "1x-ers". They will have to hear that they are not as valuable because they are not innovators. This leads to developers being biased towards building and working with new things, and is a lot of the reason that we see flavor-of-the-week style platforms and libraries that add very little value.