I had similar motivations for leaving a startup a few years ago. Not because it was easy, the work was quite challenging, but I think more because of the lack o

I had similar motivations for leaving a startup a few years ago. Not because it was easy, the work was quite challenging, but I think more because of the lack of involvement with creative input for the products I was building. I was "just another dev". I think this is an important lesson for any company building software, you'll lose top talent if you just treat them as some kind of fungible code churning cog.