I can rant about this for a while, but I’ll try to distill it down into a few points. The tasks are repetitive and boring. Many dev teams are poorly managed -

I can rant about this for a while, but I’ll try to distill it down into a few points. The tasks are repetitive and boring. Many dev teams are poorly managed - they claim to be Agile, but really they use Agile as a smokescreen for micromanagement. Product designers dictate widget orders to devs who churn them out for users who didn’t ask for them. Products themselves are increasingly hostile to users. SEO and ad revenue are the main optimization metrics. Some of the big players in the space (Meta, Amazon) have lots of harm to answer for. Big companies in general are eating the web alive and consolidating control of it into monetized silos. And with all the information coming out about how harmful our technology addictions can be, it’s hard to be stoked about creating apps that glue eyeballs to the screen. But honestly, the boredom is the biggest thing. All the technical challenges feel “solved.” I don’t care about building yet another graphql microservice or yet another “dropdown component, but like, it looks different.” It’s just not interesting or fulfilling anymore.