Consider that your experience may not be representative of all programmers' experiences (even if you exclude the experiences of the ones that we could broadly a

Consider that your experience may not be representative of all programmers' experiences (even if you exclude the experiences of the ones that we could broadly agree are not among the competent ones). Life involves green lights and red lights. If you manage to hit a lot of green lights, it can be hard to grasp what's going on with the people who didn't. (This is true even if your number of green lights is average.)