It’s a common way to retain people who have knowledge and enough people skills that are useful when the dev’s code may not be as good as it once was or thought

It’s a common way to retain people who have knowledge and enough people skills that are useful when the dev’s code may not be as good as it once was or thought to be. Personally often the differences come down to who’s is more passionate about coding and people’s interest wanes over time as the facination wares off. So less experienced devs don’t always produce better code but are just more ambitious about fixing it. Also I don’t know why you got down voted, when much more flippant posts make it to the front page.