IMO this is some quintessential false nostalgia mixed with uncritical, confirmation-bias driven cynicism. When exactly are we pointing to when we express these complaints? I get the sense that the answer is invariably either "my first job out of college" or "before React", whenever this comes up.
Even more fundamentally, it's built on the ubiquitous mistake made by those who make good money in the current status quo: it doesn't name the actual cause of rushed work et al., which is obviously capitalist cost-cutting, not lazy professionals.
Even more fundamentally, it's built on the ubiquitous mistake made by those who make good money in the current status quo: it doesn't name the actual cause of rushed work et al., which is obviously capitalist cost-cutting, not lazy professionals.