Comment by ChrisMarshallNY

> I think the “get rich easy” reputation that software engineering gained somewhere around the 2010s really hurt the industry and a lot of people who are chasing the dollar.

Yup.

Also, "The Company is the Product," where the goal is to sell the company, and the end-users are just food for the prize hog.

Just start talking about improving software quality, or giving end-users more agency, privacy, and freedom, around here, and see the response.