I think the reality is that most people who originally got into design did so not because they were passionate about user experience, but because they had some

I think the reality is that most people who originally got into design did so not because they were passionate about user experience, but because they had some artistic sensibility, and design was a field that would let them utilise that sensitivity for aesthetics while also paying them a salary. Over the past five years or so, the landscape has changed considerably, and many designers have been forced to make a decision to either head down a more UX-oriented path or do something else entirely. The result of this is that we now have a lot of UX designers who never really wanted to do UX, but were forced to adapt and take on a new role due to a changing industry.