Expand your last paragraph to apply to almost all human beings in any industry. There are burned-out doctors, know-it all priests, negative nancy teachers, perf

Expand your last paragraph to apply to almost all human beings in any industry. There are burned-out doctors, know-it all priests, negative nancy teachers, perfectionist lawyers and silent type librarians. Perhaps what's special for Software Engineers is that it's a profession with a skew towards younger workers, so you might see larger groups of people who are still emotionally immature, and thus displaying these traits, than in other industries.