> Starfield in all its grandeur is pretty boring.

And yet "No Mans Sky" is massively popular.

> ny software engineer worth their salt knows intimately that more immediate results is usually at the expense of long term sustainability.

And any software engineer worth their salt realizes there are 100s if not 1000s of problems to be solved and trying to paint a broad picture of development is naive. You have only seen 1% (at best) of the current software development field and yet you're confidently saying that a tool that is being used by a large part of it isn't actually useful. You'd have to have a massive ego to be able to categorically tell thousands of other people that what they're doing is both wrong and not useful and that they things they are seeing aren't actually true.