Reading your post -- in particular the held-high observations of someone who was fired -- one would think that Valve was a relic of a company full of apparently

Reading your post -- in particular the held-high observations of someone who was fired -- one would think that Valve was a relic of a company full of apparently useless seniors who are just waiting out their days until they can retire to go fishing. You know, the same Valve that is one of the most successful software companies operating, and is a company that is pretty much universally understood to have an incredible ability to execute. It's a weird conflict, really. As others have said, there is a bitter taste of manifestly unwarranted ageism in your post.