Big tech internal incentives really exacerbates this. The entire performance system incentivizes engineers to create imaginary problems and solve them. Honestly

Big tech internal incentives really exacerbates this. The entire performance system incentivizes engineers to create imaginary problems and solve them. Honestly, I think a good chunk of engineering activity are along these lines. Literally just imaginary problems being created which compound into more imaginary problems, all which are used by engineers to justify their existence.