But it does you no credit to dismiss ‘web devs’ as more likely to be doing that kind of work. You know the web is full of hierarchies, right? Domain names, the DOM, JSON structures, file directories? And ‘web devs’ build complicated sites with navigation hierarchies and taxonomies and comment threads and team based permissions and complex data visualizations - because web devs build applications that model real world businesses and data all the time, and those things are complex and hierarchical and fractal.
Web devs have plenty of uses for recursion. Don’t be dismissive.
It seems like you're just trying to smooth over a relatively inoffensive point. I don't think most web developers would disagree with GP. You're the one being rude and dismissive of the person you're replying to, frankly.
All commercial projects eventually become "work" when they are no longer fun, and you wouldn't show up unless paid.
You also can realize your NDA does not expire on some IP you wrote 15 years ago. lol =)
On the other hand, recursion extremely expensive in some languages and Python has a notorious limit that forces library writers to roll their own stack. So despite the above, I'm actually in the anti-recursion camp.