> Excuse my ignorance as I work in infrastructure, but do "pure" software engineers never have any time to do work outside of their assignments? A valid point,

> Excuse my ignorance as I work in infrastructure, but do "pure" software engineers never have any time to do work outside of their assignments? A valid point, but that just kicks the same question down the road: why was no engineer assigned to investigate loading times? That might be indicative of a culture that is biased towards projects with an outcome decided a priori. A lot of managers don't want to assign tasks where the definition of "done" is ambiguous.