Unfortunately, not everyone is as fortunate. You need to be in the right place at the right time to have good experience like yours. I think the author mentions this in his last few paragraphs.
Precisely. In fact, the last part of the article explicitly states that.
> Take an application that you use every day, such as YouTube. Very likely, it is mainly written and maintained in a single country, the United States. Engineers not part of YouTube and engineers elsewhere in the world are just tasked with creating and maintaining mundane business applications.
I don't see a reason for this post to be flagged. I read the guidelines before posting this and just can't see how this violates it. Even the title is a common X reasons why (listicle) that's found everywhere on the internet.
I shared this because I think this person describes programming as it is for most people outside big tech and startups. It's likely to resonate with people like me who aren't born in US where most of the fun development happens (read the conclusion of the article).
People wanted to kill the article because they disagreed. Sounds like hatred imo.