To add to the "layers" aspect, the young hotshot coders of the world are also some of the worst at making marketable products, because they've become used to ma

To add to the "layers" aspect, the young hotshot coders of the world are also some of the worst at making marketable products, because they've become used to making an 80% prototype and then moving on to the next thing, which means that they haven't experienced this yet: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/11/26 http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/11/26 Learning software "in the large" still basically requires you to drive the bigger and bigger trucks over(more features) until the bridge(your architecture) breaks. It can't be properly conveyed with any weekend project or library.