As a JavaScript developer you live in a world where people are afraid to write software... any software, at all. When I say afraid I mean that word in the very

As a JavaScript developer you live in a world where people are afraid to write software... any software, at all. When I say afraid I mean that word in the very visceral emotional way. It is a culture of extreme Invented Here Syndrome where you add dependencies and if there is not a dependency that already solves a given problem the problem is simply not worth solving. So, you end up with these colossal frameworks, yes that's plural. The developers like to pat themselves on the back for their supreme challenge of conquering the beast to... put text on screen. It's stupid, but it a way it's self-validating because these frameworks are just massive. They provide an API more than 10x larger the standards they replace so that developers don't have to form original opinions or build things. When I say stepping outside the mold I mean not doing any of that stupid shit. As a result of avoiding the stupid I can release products that are possibly 1000x faster to execute, more accessible, dramatically faster to maintain, and so on. One developer that actually knows what they are doing can easily replace an entire development team. If that one developer that knows what they are doing always knows how to implement test automation they can reduce expenses associated by regression around 95-98%. But when you do any of that you have immediately invalidated the existence and imposter nonsense of the other developers like popping a balloon. The natural response is hostility. Fortunately I was able to switch careers and go do something else.