> Could this be because 15-20 years ago in order to get in to the industry you had to have a certain passion and curiosity in order to get through the forest of

> Could this be because 15-20 years ago in order to get in to the industry you had to have a certain passion and curiosity in order to get through the forest of very technical tools and programming languages in order to run anything. In 2010, you could choose a tech stack - .Net or Java and learn it well enough to get a full stack implementation done along with JavaScript and choose an RDMS. Not too much different than today. Today it’s worse with the clusterfuck of the front end ecosystem. The iOS SDK was already mature and the Android SDK was getting mature 2005 was about the same. But then if you wanted to build a mobile app you either used whatever Java was doing or the Windows Compact Framework. Even back in 2000 it wasn’t that bad. I haven’t had “passion” for computer science since entering college and I was a hobbyist before then