A farmer who understands the value of crop rotation is completely right to be upset when other farmers are monocropping and killing the soil, or when they squander the local aquifer. It's directly impacting the sustainability of their industry.
The owners also disallow the use of ladders because the pool of candidates to hire remains bigger.
And the highest 90% of apples remain unpicked.
- Apple trees are deliberately bred to be short and wide.
- An apple-picking-stick has a sort of basket on the end, which allows an apple to be selected and pulled off from 1-2 meters away.
What lessons can be learned?
- Using the right tools improves your yield, safely.
- Having the data in a convenient place means you can use it more readily.
I'm not upset at this simply for purity's sake; it directly impacts me in my day-to-day job. A hundred devs individually decide that good enough is good enough (deliberately or otherwise), and suddenly my infrastructure is dealing with traffic and query patterns it shouldn't have to, and then I have to explain what network bandwidth limits are, and why it's absurd that we hit them in the first place.
In general, what I'm railing against is the continued push towards simplification and abstraction, while not requiring the understanding of what lies beneath. The hyperscalers certainly aren't trying to foster that attitude in-house – someone has to build the abstractions in the first place, after all, and keep datacenters humming. Yet they're happily shoveling it out, because it's a win-win for them: fewer people have the skills necessary to compete (or even to simply not use their services), and more people are able to use their services.
It directly impacts anyone that uses software everyday. Most people don't seem to understand and/or care how poorly the software they use runs.
So, I guess all I am saying is that you are not alone in these concerns.
Who cares if they didn't insulate a wall correctly or put an inefficient system in? If they can get it by the inspector, they will do it. If they can save themselves $100, that is all that matters to them. Who cares if it adds $10 to each month's utility bills for the next 30 years? They got their money and are now long gone.