> The desire to build custom versions of everything seems to come from a few places: 1 [...] 2 [...] 3 [...] 4
There are personal reasons as well:
5. Innate curiosity and excitement about technology
6a. Get experience
6b. Resume talking point
Many of us picked a career in IT because just like building things out of Legos is fun, building a streamlined full CI/CD pipeline is fun, building a full stack application is fun, etc. Speaking of career, one needs to acquire experience in the new technologies to pad their resume and it's convenient to do it on company time.
I'm not justifying putting your interests ahead of your company's, but understand that's what some of us do. I'd say #5 and #6 are often stronger drivers for decisions than #1-4.
There are personal reasons as well:
5. Innate curiosity and excitement about technology
6a. Get experience
6b. Resume talking point
Many of us picked a career in IT because just like building things out of Legos is fun, building a streamlined full CI/CD pipeline is fun, building a full stack application is fun, etc. Speaking of career, one needs to acquire experience in the new technologies to pad their resume and it's convenient to do it on company time.
I'm not justifying putting your interests ahead of your company's, but understand that's what some of us do. I'd say #5 and #6 are often stronger drivers for decisions than #1-4.