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That may contribute, but we saw the same pattern in devs who had been there for 5-10 years. I also see the same pattern in "Ask HN" posts and many comments her

That may contribute, but we saw the same pattern in devs who had been there for 5-10 years. I also see the same pattern in "Ask HN" posts and many comments here from people venting about how they've started so many side projects but can never finish them. Starting new projects is fun. Shipping things can be hard and requires some tolerance for boredom. A lot of people get into the field because they like to program and play with new programming things. Regardless of jobs or compensation, there's a strong pull toward doing new and different things. There's also a strong aversion to working on someone else's project.

makeitdouble 5y ago
Shipping products is boring when the products themselves are boring. That’s why people want to work at small companies who have a lot more stakes in each releases and pay close attention to what they build, how it reaches market and make it evolves after. To throw another log in this rant bone fire, a few decades ago software was seen as harder and more expensive, and while there was some frivolous and/or stupid apps, big enough development projects were usually bound to some purpose. Our industry in its current form is more open to build meaningless things and trash after a while. I knew devs who were specialized in home page redesigns, and they viewed it as facelifts to show the client company is still alive. It has a business purpose, but in the grand scheme of things the only person that really enjoyed the project was the guy using it to learn vue.js. Or a team porting an app from Objective-C to React native, not because they think it’s shiny but because hiring is hard/expensive and/or the business wants to have one size fits all apps for iOs and android.