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 releas

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.