> Most web developers are working on very "boring" teams. They're producing workhorse products that serve the organisation needs. They aren't trying to innovate

> Most web developers are working on very "boring" teams. They're producing workhorse products that serve the organisation needs. They aren't trying to innovate. This analysis is bogus, it assumes innovation is defined by bleeding edge technology and tooling... specific technology or tooling does not define or even positively correlate with innovation of the project itself. In fact I would go as far as saying it potentially has a negative correlation - bleeding edge tooling or technology can be especially distracting unless the difference is fundamentally relevant - when I pick the simplest most boring tool it's often because they are well understood, mature and minimize the time I spent focusing on them, unlike bleeding edge things that pull me away from the core problem or thing I am trying to "innovate". These are not mutually exclusive either, you might have some people working on putting together build pipelines who are very "noisy" about up and coming technologies that can simplify or improve their systems somehow... and completely separately some other people who write the code that goes through that pipeline and may or may not care about it's exact makeup, they also may or may not be "noisy" about the patterns or strategies they came up with to innovate in their problem areas. While it is true there is a visible and invisible part of the world of development (not everyone blogs), the analogy completely breaks down when you try to infer things from that observed absence of information because people are not amorphous matter. People are the complete entropic opposite, they are highly animate high entropy matter exhibitting some of the most complex behavior known - Attempting to infer a single quality of one of their most complex and intentional behaviors from a lack of information is not going to work... even for dark matter we only dare to infer extremely generic things such as quantity.