I don’t know about that. I am not privvy to the internal politics of most commercial software developers and that’s a good thing. I guess there is some drama about whatever layoffs, corporate business practices or enshittification those are deploying, but I am a big enough man to concede that, while objectively worse, it annoys me less. At least you get to be outraged and holier-than-thou with those instead of losing faith in the ability of smart people to be mature and collectively productive.

And no, production practices and usability aren’t the same as coding, even if they are implemented in code. Unfortunately, I do think that confusion is… widespread in that community. It’s a very engineer-driven space and that has downsides. I do get why, engineers don’t like to be managed on top of contributing to things freely and there are fewer people in those capacities willing to donate their time who aren’t programmers with a side skill, which in aggregate explains a lot.

Not necessarily what’s happening here, but still.