While the "kids" are hacking, micro-dosing, and working 100 weeks. And they are all of 17.
It's not in their world. A 55 year old banker is not hacking solidity contracts at 3 AM. No way.
While there's probably something to the motivated young weirdo hacker theory (it was William Burroughs who said "only the young bring anything in, and they are not young very long"), I would also very skeptical what a JP Morgan banker has to say about the SEC. It's like asking a bank robber what he thinks of the police (hyperbole, I know. Bear with me). There's a bit of a natural bias there.
That said, JP Morgan has launched their own Ethereum fork and is working closely with the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and (to my knowledge) Vitalik Buterin. It seems they're sincerely chasing this tech (dragon?) for better intentions or for worse.
One can make time for both, but the prior probability is quite low that a person with a real adult life will also be on the cutting edge of technology.
Sometimes the fire of youth produces fantastic ideas that change our world. Their initial efforts, though raw and non-optimal, show a beautiful gleam that - through effort by more seasoned developers - is polished into something beautiful. These are more common, but still rare.
Most 17 year old coders however produce well intentioned awfulness that is technically poor, non-optimal, has security holes, and if it handles edge cases at all does so poorly - and that's the good stuff.
The kids work is valuable but mostly to them - they're still learning.. usually still learning the basics too.
It's important to do that! That's great for a programmer and it will likely have some cool ideas... and hell, maybe a product or something will come from it.
But the original post was just naive.
This veneration of the church of conspicuous effort is not a new idea. It's lead many people astray. Be careful.
In fact, I would argue that the correlation swings in the opposite direction.
Fucking awesome. Nobody should be doing that.