> ...with multiple decades of massive experience... You're assuming that the people with this experience have a) successfully passed it on, and / or that, b) t

> ...with multiple decades of massive experience... You're assuming that the people with this experience have a) successfully passed it on, and / or that, b) they're still coding. We don't have an apprenticeship model in software development that would lend itself to such a thing. Each new crop of developers has to relearn the lessons in whatever new stack they happen to encounter the issues. It would be like each new generation of carpenters having to relearn their trade because the wood had entirely different characteristics every time someone went to use it. That experience you mention applies to the general cases, but again, the people that have it may not be the ones doing the work hands-on any more.