I think this is something almost straight out of Fred Brooks mythical Man month set of essays, from observations in the 1960s. Iirc, one of the essays had the

I think this is something almost straight out of Fred Brooks mythical Man month set of essays, from observations in the 1960s. Iirc, one of the essays had the moral " many software developers would rather work on the infrastructure to solve the problem than actually solve the problem"