100%

Agreed $&@!& him, and any company hires him

You sound burnt out. If possible move back in with parents and family, take some time to rest and recoup. Things will seem a lot clearer once you take some time to reset

Best take so far

And who leads and sets the vision. A committee of “average” engineers?

I regularly do large changes on many millions of lines legacy code bases with no unit tests. It can be done it just requires a lot of work. The only factor that matters is do we need to do this, the rest not so much

Seen this dance many times

Being in the top 0.001% of developers won’t help if you don’t have a large network or good brand

What a fantastic reply

100%. Also The really difficult work is usually a lot more than 40-50 hours a week