As well: Companies pay more for dev time than they ever have in the past. There are tonnes of stories of companies buying devs the best hardware so that they ca

As well: Companies pay more for dev time than they ever have in the past. There are tonnes of stories of companies buying devs the best hardware so that they can program more effectively, and of course devs with the best hardware don’t even see a lot of performance issues. Then on top of that, companies are making choices like “we could optimize X and Y, but that would take too much dev time. Let’s just (compromise somewhere/bump up the requirements)”