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> That wouldn't fly today because everyone is obsessed with employee fungibility and bus factor.

Rightly so. Job hopping is much easier in the software industry now than it was when that book was written. Average tenure in software jobs is significantly lower than the average for all professions, and even that general average is only around 4 years.



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