Yet another software opinion article preaching mediocrity. Imagine a carpenter that only uses a hammer because learning other tools is too hard for them, and he'd have to bring his colleagues up to speed, and ah forget it we can use nails instead of screws anyway.
"Oh! Drain pipe for the faucet? I know, I'll just use leftover air vent ducts, that's what I'm already familiar with anyway!" (Using nails to join everything of course, how's that for a leaky abstraction?)
As he proclaims the "first sprint" done he walks up to you, demanding a 100K/year salary. When you decline, because the house is falling apart, he angrily mutters something about how "tech debt" is wrecking this industry (he's blaming the failure on you for not giving enough time to address it) and that he was thinking about finding another job anyway, since he was already working for you close to a year now.
"Oh! Drain pipe for the faucet? I know, I'll just use leftover air vent ducts, that's what I'm already familiar with anyway!" (Using nails to join everything of course, how's that for a leaky abstraction?)
As he proclaims the "first sprint" done he walks up to you, demanding a 100K/year salary. When you decline, because the house is falling apart, he angrily mutters something about how "tech debt" is wrecking this industry (he's blaming the failure on you for not giving enough time to address it) and that he was thinking about finding another job anyway, since he was already working for you close to a year now.