@deprecated_ii Taking things seriously is really the only way anyone can become good at anything.
I think a part of it was IT and software programming is seen as a neat and clean profession for high status people. So it naturally attracts the worthless strivers and other faggots who don’t want to get their hands dirty.
The first programmers were often electronics engineers pulling double duty writing the first programs so the fancy new computers they built with their bare hands would actually do something useful. They should have never developed computer language beyond assembly.