I don't think is caused so much by fewer people doing truly interesting work as it is by a greater number of people doing fairly trivial projects. In other wor

I don't think is caused so much by fewer people doing truly interesting work as it is by a greater number of people doing fairly trivial projects. In other words, it's not that resources that could have gone to "serious" projects are being allocated instead to easy projects. The author even says as much, different people are doing those jobs.