I find that our entire industry is encouraging and rewarding type-3 behavior. While tech is definitely a requirement in any business, the tech should always be

I find that our entire industry is encouraging and rewarding type-3 behavior. While tech is definitely a requirement in any business, the tech should always be directed at helping accomplish the business' real goals which is ultimately to make money. Any tech that is above that or deviates from that goal is superfluous and a waste of money/resources/time/brainpower. The issue I find is that the last decade of free VC money and "growth & engagement" means that there were a lot of companies that were given free money regardless of their profitability or even basic sanity-check of the proposed business models, instead rewarding them based on hype or some unspecified potential to turn some vague idea of "growth" into profit (hint: if your "growth" is based on giving away free stuff, those users will leave as soon as you attempt to monetize them), or "engagement" (engagement is a very uncertain thing to monetize in a world already saturated with advertising). As a result this has funded entire careers based on what is effectively mental masturbation as opposed to actual tangible improvements in the software's ability to drive actual business value (in many cases it is negative value if you account for the salaries spent on it), only made possible because the free money sidestepped normal market dynamics that would usually encourage businesses to reduce overheads and focus their efforts on profit-generating operations (or go out of business). My personal experience with technology is that the collective effort spent over the last decade over things that are considered "modern" didn't actually improve the customer experience in the vast majority of cases. Ordering food for example is still ultimately browsing a list of items and submitting a form of what you want, yet nowadays despite orders of magnitude greater bandwidth and processing power, I had to sit through seconds of stuttering while megabytes of JS load, execute and make dozens of subsequent requests to get data that the backend could've embedded in the initial server-side-rendered HTML. Same with Microsoft boasting about how their new Teams taking only 9s to load while Skype from 2009 delivering the same functionality faster on much more constrained hardware.