> I always wonder if this is just a poor understanding of the value individuals bring or just short shortsightedness on the part of management/the finance team.

> I always wonder if this is just a poor understanding of the value individuals bring or just short shortsightedness on the part of management/the finance team. I'm thoroughly of the jaded opinion that when it's not a power play (no one's lizard brain wants to admit there's someone smarter than them), it can actually be a sort-of-rational decision: don't be beholden to someone hard to replace. Hence why you see tons of PHP jobs, but few in languages like the Lisps or Haskell.