Lots of factors at play. BAs/managers/execs are taught optimization is no longer needed because of horizontal scalability. No one ever thinks about where this idiocy originates. This is combined with "cloud" computing vendors (example, AWS) teaching it's cheaper than owning your own (actually around 20%-30% more, including labor). Which they love because unoptimized apps means more bank for them. Popularity only confirms how unqualified most management actually is for the industry. Non-whites traditionally mean non-optimized, buggy, poorly documented, poorly designed code. Developers who can optimize are higher end veterans and are harder to come by. So they pool cheap labor and let the brains fix all the bullshit so it's "good enough." In theory saving bank. Which is almost never true because their projects are usually very late and under delivered. Which means at best they broke even with a skilled project which would have been delivered on time. But they still get reduced labor rates as the primary push for non-whites is wage suppression. Want to know what you should be making? It's anywhere from 40%-300% more than you make today. That's the Indian contribution to the tech market. As for pushing against business, this is the genius of bullshit like AGILE. It shifts the blame onto the developers so they pretend the developers are at fault while hiding the fact that it's still managers and execs causing the problems. "Well, you said you could do it in x." Never mind management set the requirements, almost never provide time for estimate and project analysis, or time for an actual design. "We didn't know about x." "Well, you said you could do x in y time." "You said it had to be done is y time and x is/was unknown as you didn't provide project time." "You have a bad attitude. Developer is difficult with which to work." Languages like C# and Java came to be specifically because languages like C and C++ are too hard for non-whites. While they love to lie that these provide C and C++ performance, in reality, especially when combined with lacking optimizations, they are commonly 4x-8x slower than a C or C++ equivalent. See first and second points above. Add to this that BAs and manager/exec idiots are taught that web everything is a good idea, we wind up with environments where many apps run orders of magnitude slower than a native app. Honestly, JS/TS are some of the absolute shittiest languages I've ever had to use. But this tier of developer tends to be second or third so generally don't suffer with them much. The combination is massive overhead on the front end (which they generally don't pay for - except for lost labor waiting) and massive overhead on the backend, for which they now pay a premium. The result is the overhead and lost time and suppressed wages all create justification for more "out sourcing" and pajeets who further drag the entire industry and economy down. There's a reason why Space X is highly successful, less expensive, and has almost exclusively white males.