Comment by quickthrower2

That software from a pool of millions of SWE across the world. And importantly this software created outside of corporate structures! I think these exceptions prove the rule.

Most SWE are working for companies that don’t make money reinventing architecture. Leading a bunch of people to use existing tools to sell something to customers is probably where most of the value comes from in SME world and probably most of the big company world too.

Everywhere I have worked the very experienced people are probably doing the “the same year repeated many times” rather than a pyramid of experience taking on more complex engineering challenges.

There is a lot of money in glue code.