Gigascale software projects with thousands of engineers and a hundred layers of abstraction (half of which nobody understands and they only work simultaneously

Gigascale software projects with thousands of engineers and a hundred layers of abstraction (half of which nobody understands and they only work simultaneously 2 days out of the year) got everyone burnt out. Messing around in bespoke, home-grown computing environments made out of text files that you wrote yourself is grounding, like growing your own vegetables, and we all need that more than ever these days.