The dirty secret is most of the time we are NOT working on anything novel at all. It is pretty much a CRUD application and it is pretty much a master detail flow.
Even for completely uninteresting CRUD work, you're better off with better deterministic tooling (scaffolding for templates, macros for code, better abstractions generally). Unfortunately, past a certain low level, we're stuck rolling our own for these things. I'm not sure why, but I am guessing it has to do with them not being profitable to produce and sell.
