Coding is about creativity and architecture, just not if you work for big tech. Big tech is not interested in quality architecture which minimizes the amount of

Coding is about creativity and architecture, just not if you work for big tech. Big tech is not interested in quality architecture which minimizes the amount of maintenance work. They will use any opportunity they can get to boost headcount - Poor quality code and complexity bloat is a great way to achieve this. That way there is a constantly increasing need to hire new employees to manage the increasing complexity. These new employees can be placed at the bottom of the org pyramid for old employees to start bossing around and 'move up' the crony career ladder... All while the systems become increasingly more complex and brittle and internal processes become bureaucratic to a kafkaesque degree. I agree, if you love coding, law would have made a better career; that's an industry where logic and reason still matter. It seems like medicine is not good either nowadays for rational thinkers. There's never been a better time to be an idiot. Idiots shall inherit the earth.