On: Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out

[notretarded]

You're overestimating the competency, drive, and intelligence of an average developer.

Fortunate are you to have worked with people to give you such a point of view.

[lostcolony → notretarded]

Yeah, but what hiring process intends to hire average devs? Yes, most probably -end up with- average devs...but most also ask and test for X years in a language, not people who seek to learn things and are curious and want to take responsibility and own things.