Meh. Who actually works as a software dev at one of these academic institutions? The pay is beyond terrible. Presumably you have either: - Young and keen. You

Meh. Who actually works as a software dev at one of these academic institutions? The pay is beyond terrible. Presumably you have either: - Young and keen. Young and keen are the source of all kinds of terrible things. That’s why you need old and bitter to balance it out. Old and bitter is off working for much more money in a boring corporate. - Side hustlers/other incompetents. “I’m now a software dev!” It’s not that proper software shops don’t struggle against “complexification” and all manner of other deviant behaviours. There are so many ways to turn software into hell - “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” But if this is your problem, the problem isn’t “the software industry” or “best practice” or “devs jobs are so easy they just have to make up complexity”. The problem is incompetence. Managerial/leadership incompetence.