fullofcrap

I think there are categories, and we haven't figured out what to call them yet or how to define them. I see archetypes emerging over the years, and patterns. I've worked with career programmers that are done at 5:00pm, and never crack a book. They work fine in their niche, and when layoff come, they're working tech support. I know others that love problems but can't seem to make their ideas become manifest, yet kludge snippets from StackOverflow to create a product. I personally live for challenge, I learn new languages and tech as a hobby, and lead growth and change in every org I've worked for. Often at the cost of health, and relationships. We're all programmers, but we're not all the same.

You've created a nice showpiece. However, it's still a horrible design trend, and it's probably the work user experience element I've seen used in recent years. This is the equivalent of the animated gifs of the 90's. Under construction and dancing baby being the most common. Adding distraction rather than focusing on content has never been a successful strategy, and I hope it never does.

It will course correct eventually. I'm hoping sooner.