Oh and most of the org can only barely abstractly relate to the challenges & difficulties you face.

Really good short article. This is valuable like heck & grounds the whole experience, shares & makes known one of it's widest aspects.

Conversely all the challenges are part of why coding is fun too. Faced with a million rough & pointy ways for things to go wrong, for them to be difficult or to come together poorly, we often eek out something reasonably elegant and capable. We overcome. We make.