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> What did you do instead? It’s certainly frustrating to have people breaking docs that you fixed. But what else is there.

I concluded that it was a fatal and unfixable flaw in that community / product / company. This sapped my motivation, and I'm sure resulting burnout was a factor in eventually being laid off.

One thing that sucks about being a senior dev is you're subject to Cassandra [0] syndrome. In a tight labor market, that gets painful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra




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