It was never about competence. Most of us were of different backgrounds. It was about the need to track down, secure licenses for and install the dev environme

It was never about competence. Most of us were of different backgrounds. It was about the need to track down, secure licenses for and install the dev environment that you'd use for those 4-8 hours per year that it took to add support for the new API. The entire company lived in the JVM otherwise.