@baldur Good points. In the days of "create more value than you capture" a lot of startups were so profitable that they could afford under-utilized developers. Then came zero interest rates and "employee hoarding," when it was cheaper to for a big co. to keep someone on staff than to watch them go develop a competing product and have to buy them out along with their VCs. Now both productivity-boosting innovation and money are scarce, so developers are time-crunched at best, or laid off