I can't speak for the industry as a whole, but for me at my particular company in my particular role, it's been 4 years of not just grind, but boring grind. And

I can't speak for the industry as a whole, but for me at my particular company in my particular role, it's been 4 years of not just grind, but boring grind. And since the pandemic, upper management has continually made decisions that affect our ability to do our jobs negatively, with either no explanations or BS explanations that don't actually make sense and are just trying to use politics to toe the company line. In short, we as developers are hired for our ability to think through things logically and find why things don't work and how to make them work, but upper management expects us to be okay with broken policies without any logical rationale. With all that, and a recent crunch as we started bleeding devs (partly as a result of those policies), I need something fulfilling in order to be okay with the added anxiety and pressure... and there's nothing fulfilling about the job.