This is the real reason, at least for myself. My level of skill currently rests somewhere between "intermediate" and "proficient" with the languages and librar

This is the real reason, at least for myself. My level of skill currently rests somewhere between "intermediate" and "proficient" with the languages and libraries I use on a day to day basis, in my opinion. I'm nowhere near a guru with anything I use - however, I can't even discuss the implementation of things I consider trivial with the people I implement them for, because there is such a huge divide in knowledge, and domain-specific language. I would have to spend a long time explaining basics before I could even get close to making the point I would like to, but would probably be able to explain what I needed to to make the point in 20 minutes to someone who just had some basic software development experience. It's very easy to forget just how much stuff goes on, and how much you have to take into account, and how much you learned to get to the point where you could implement what you did - even with what we consider to be very simple apps. As such, it is very easy to extremely undervalue an application.