Standardization builds industries and economies of scale. Having competing standards is great for technologists, but makes the current problem particularly pain

Standardization builds industries and economies of scale. Having competing standards is great for technologists, but makes the current problem particularly painful: in job descriptions, employers now specify not just general technologies used but also particular frameworks, ci/cd tools, and on and on. So many tools that a person must be competent with using, that only a handful of people might know all of them on day one, which makes hiring much more expensive. You either pay over market rate for the perfect person, or hire someone decent and pay for them to learn the job. Ultimately, I think we’re in a better place than we were without modern tooling, but it makes it hard to hire…