As you pointed out, passionate programming is at odds with a job where lots of other people are passionate about other things. For instance, a passionate progr

As you pointed out, passionate programming is at odds with a job where lots of other people are passionate about other things. For instance, a passionate programmer would not respond to a job ad that lists off the technologies they have to use, which is every job ad out there. Most people in jobs don't want passionate programmers. If someone is free to be as productive as possible it causes problems for all kinds of people: The people who's jobs are replaced, people who look like they're not in control of subordinates, people who want to bill customers for lots of hours and work, people who want to maximize their political capital by controlling what features are delivered and who they are delivered to. A person that truly wants to hire passionate programmers would give them a general description of the problem and business constraints, and then let the programmer take it from there. You don't see many job ads offering this.