I don't feel this is that different from software eng jobs. We A/B test things to death just to get tiny metrics improvements.
Sometimes i feel like we shit on youtube creators because it seems like what they do is silly or frivolous. But is that last software feature you worked on that nobody is ever going to use but is needed to check a box so marketing can say we meet some standard so that we can sell the product to some big corp decision maker who is never going to actually use the software, really any better?
Jobs a job. Ultimately people are doing it to pay the bills, not for the sake of art.
Sometimes i feel like we shit on youtube creators because it seems like what they do is silly or frivolous. But is that last software feature you worked on that nobody is ever going to use but is needed to check a box so marketing can say we meet some standard so that we can sell the product to some big corp decision maker who is never going to actually use the software, really any better?
Jobs a job. Ultimately people are doing it to pay the bills, not for the sake of art.