we failed to get rid of software and the demand for software has escalated tremendously
we are in the mines forever, you used to have a PM with whom you could argue for a 2 week timeline for a CRUD endpoint but now you have a client asking you to implement a feature yesterday
software engineers had a blissful 2–3 months of being 3x more productive before everyone realized they could simply ask for 3x more software. and now the x keeps going up