I see what you're saying.
I tend to believe the talent is underutilized. I'm retired, but spent 40 years in IT, most of it in (now hackneyed term) "cutting edge technologies". For the first 25 years it was understood that top dollar talent had resource control and free rein over research and development of new ideas. After about 2005, R&D became a race to copy/tweak what was out there with little to no resources allotted towards new concepts. We've become China.
If you look at college priorities "race sex" you'll see how they dropped the ball and fired the best instructors since the best don't lie to keep their jobs. It's also the reason Linux is a slow ass piece of crap slowing down on faster hardware for almost a decade. Went from instant to wait for it on the mouse click, went from cutting edge to needs a different color scheme. Yeah it's all shit thanks to politics and it's all downhill with the current leadership in every fucking industry and government across the world.
A race to the bottom I call it. How cheap and shitty can you do something and still find a buyer is the new normal.
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