Comment by ben509
6 years ago
> The collaborative kind of setting really helps in creating a nice vibe
Yeah, the vibe is the entire reason why they're popular.
It's like the "I f*cking love science" image of science: science looks cool and fun if you're an astronomer posing next to a telescope, as opposed to grad student tediously running spectroscopy against thousands of images.
And developers look way cooler when they're models smiling and pointing at a computer screen than when they're heads down writing actual code.
Apparently nobody wants to feel like a cog in the machine they really are.
In the (not so) elder days, displaying a roomful of people banging on typewriters was considered cool.