Twenty years ago, people joined IT because they loved computers. Many of them were on the autistic spectrum. Today, people join IT because they know that's wher

Twenty years ago, people joined IT because they loved computers. Many of them were on the autistic spectrum. Today, people join IT because they know that's where the money is. For the people who are on the autistic spectrum, this is a bad news, because now they are expected to become happily extraverted, work in noisy open spaces, get interrupted by meetings all day long (and then be on call during the night), keep networking, and get sufficiently good at office politics so that they don't get fired for understanding some corporate bullshit literally. Technical skills are still important, but secondary. tl;dr -- IT was gentrified by normies