A couple of reasons: Defense tech skews fairly conservative. You may be underselling Luckey's talent, he single-handedly created the VR industry! But his weird

A couple of reasons: Defense tech skews fairly conservative. You may be underselling Luckey's talent, he single-handedly created the VR industry! But his weird obsession with the border and other political hot topics makes his company very un-fun to talk about. Even if you are fairly conservative but libertarian leaning, you may find empowering government agencies to police (or harm!) civilians is unpalatable for a lot of people. Seconding on that, a lot of defense technology is used in immigration enforcement. Tech is an immigrant-heavy sector. Working for defense tech can often require security clearance only a small segment the programming community is even eligible for. But more than anything, I think the kind of work most programmers could do in defense technology is going to be largely unfun. Building guns and planes and space lasers is cool. But being part of government procured code is not. There is not going to be much glamour, or insight to share (if you were even allowed to share about it).