> they rely on esoteric knowledge to build defensible moats around their seniority Sadly you are correct. Job security and thus gatekeeping are the higher prio

> they rely on esoteric knowledge to build defensible moats around their seniority Sadly you are correct. Job security and thus gatekeeping are the higher priority. So yeah, yet another case of perverse incentives. :( > Ultimately, this is why I think we need compiler assistance so that stuff like docs can be enforced in CI unilaterally. Completely agreed, plus declarative programming. At 41 I am already sick to my stomach about having to manually write boilerplate. Tooling helps only a little and is hugely overrated; so what if the tool generates skeleton controllers et. al.? 90% of what you know should be there is yours to do anyway. But that's a huge tangent. :)