Tech does seem to harbor this weird disdain towards creative industries. "Designers" are looked down on as simply destroying the efficiency of UI and web layout

Tech does seem to harbor this weird disdain towards creative industries. "Designers" are looked down on as simply destroying the efficiency of UI and web layouts with wasteful bloat and eye candy, artists aren't "authentic" unless they suffer, anyone who isn't hand-crafting their HTML on a site they're serving from their living room is just a commercial parasite with nothing of value to offer, and everyone should give all of their work away for free regardless of how much time, effort and investment they put into it. And stop complaining when an AI comes along and rips your style off because you were just an elitist gatekeeping art to begin with, and are probably just a talentless hack. The concept that someone could be passionate and authentic about their work and want or need to make a living at it just doesn't compute. Maybe it's something in the programmer/engineer mindset that sees anything beyond pure code and information as essentially puerile and meaningless.