>> I want to do "It+1" at the very least, more likely "It+2".
I've managed to do "it+0.5" at a couple places. Most companies are only interested in doing "it" by the book and miss out on so much. At my current place I developed a couple +1 concepts that handle issues automatically, gave presentations with relatively little code needed, got a "hey that's cool" but was never asked to actually integrate those into the product or have someone closer to it integrate it. They're very happy to just do "it", never mind that we have issues that may well stem from not taking "it" to the next level.
I've managed to do "it+0.5" at a couple places. Most companies are only interested in doing "it" by the book and miss out on so much. At my current place I developed a couple +1 concepts that handle issues automatically, gave presentations with relatively little code needed, got a "hey that's cool" but was never asked to actually integrate those into the product or have someone closer to it integrate it. They're very happy to just do "it", never mind that we have issues that may well stem from not taking "it" to the next level.