Yeah, me too. I worked at a place in the 90s that was absolutely going in that direction, but I had no word for the phenomenon. They were an all Vax/VMS shop i

Yeah, me too. I worked at a place in the 90s that was absolutely going in that direction, but I had no word for the phenomenon. They were an all Vax/VMS shop in the mid-90s, and they paid developers criminally low wages even for the era. I was hired in an analyst/project management role at a considerably higher salary, which of course made my group unpopular with the dev rank and file. Turnover was insane -- like, 40% a year in the dev & IT department. Those that stayed were, generally speaking, those that either couldn't conceive of seeking another job, or were unable to do so. This is not a recipe for a functional or high-achieving group even without that by-that-point religious adherence to the party line on (a) the long-term viability of VMS and Digital generally or (b) the wisdom of insisting that damn near everything be built from scratch, even the database system.