Comment by gymbeaux

I really like that “X vs Y” example. I was just on a team where we were estranged from the business folk who would supposedly be using our products and it very much felt like a “Y”, where my boss cared much more about the tech stack than the value (if any) we could deliver to the users. Suffice it to say the team was cut in a round of layoffs. I had fun working with things that I normally wouldn’t work with (eg Neo4j) but to me surprise it was very demotivating not feeling any purpose behind what we were building, tech stack be damned.