Don't you think that most of your clients being breached is immaterial in the greater scheme of things? You seem to be bothered by the "overall picture". I am

Don't you think that most of your clients being breached is immaterial in the greater scheme of things? You seem to be bothered by the "overall picture". I am also prone to this sentiment (not in infosec though) but I am actually consoled by the sort of nihilist nature of things. Maybe even optimistic for being so. I think the stuff that keeps us happy are minutiae. If you are super keen about APIs then maybe building really sensible APIs along the way will bring you the relief of having something stimulating to work on. At the moment I get a lot of satisfaction from tooling vim to be my super-IDE and everytime I use vim now I get a kind of wry happiness from not having to use all kinds of apps and what-not. I think APIs can be super interesting and useful. For example, I wanted to pull the Bitcoin purchasing history from a site and the answer was... you have to use Golang. I also get a sort of satisfaction from using Perl in this way. (I use Python too.) It's just that all kinds of wonderful gems were once written in Perl by people that were clearly bored with their lives (exiftool comes to mind).