This is something that really irks me about the tech industry. If you don’t move up, you risk getting cut. Management will eventually phase out older developers

This is something that really irks me about the tech industry. If you don’t move up, you risk getting cut. Management will eventually phase out older developers in layoffs, and replace them with younger, cheaper talent. Big corporations especially. I know way too many developers who Never wanted to be in management, and eventually management became people younger than them, who preferred younger colleagues.