And by the way? That “bare minimum competence” is actually *less expensive* to teach, learn, & apply than many of the useless things that are actually taught to developers today. I’m not simply saying “if more money was thrown at the problem, and if you taught more stuff, and if you raised the average developer IQ by 15, etc., then everything would be better”. Software development has become so terrible that doing a much better job is actually *cheaper*. It saves beginners & companies both time & money over the long term, and it actually will be *more* profitable, given improved customer satisfaction. Everyone is so brainwashed to call everything a “tradeoff”. If one thing, like performance, gets better, then surely some other thing must get worse? Actually no. Tradeoffs occur when you’re operating on the edge of what’s currently feasible. Most software today is nowhere close, because of bad management practices yes, and also because of widespread developer unfamiliarity with computer & native programming basics.