>It sounds like you haven't been in the situation the parent is describing. Sure I have. And the first few times I too thought that it mattered. But it doesn't

>It sounds like you haven't been in the situation the parent is describing. Sure I have. And the first few times I too thought that it mattered. But it doesn't. None of the stuff we care about as software developers actually matters. We are just pawns for the people making money decisions. Completely replaceable automatons. If what you are doing is not directly supporting a strategic business goal, you are doing nothing but costing a business money. And cost centers are the first to be cut. You can sit there with your sense of self importance, thinking that the cleanliness and elegance of your code matters. But it just doesn't. Nobody cares. And the sooner you let go of thinking it matters the sooner you can focus your effort on what does. The reality is that when whatever old house of cards you're running fails for whatever reason, the business will switch to a vendor that covers 95% of the use case, while being much cheaper and not requiring FTE support. It will be a tiny bump in the road for the business, replacing this thing that you thought was a world beating make or break technology.