SMS also comes with no deliverability or latency guarantees, and hard to scale globally as rules and regulations are different in every country. Acquiring IDs is slow and you need multiple for backup routes and different use cases.
Is it really indifference or are employees responding to incentives? Few places reward code performance. Companies are getting exactly what they pay for and missing a deadline to improve efficiency is irrational under current comp strategies.
By this reasoning there is a magical window where a person is old enough to understand the consequences of their actions yet young enough for it not to be abuse. What happens at 18 to say that corporeal punishment is no longer effective and legal? By that reasoning should corpreal punishment be allowed in the workplace?
I explicitly mentioned that one is an absolutely indefensible case, the other is at least open to some form of discussion even though I disagree with any corporal punishment. But that is quite common in a wide range of countries (e.g. Mexican/Asian mothers with their slippers are infamous), so there is that.
In my experience typing while walking has not been an issue but using a mouse with moderate to high sensitivity can be challenging. Using a gaming feature such as "sniper" mode to toggle mouse sensitivity when precise clicking is necessary solved the problem.
> Messages often took a full month to get a response.
Also does not ring true to my experience with AWS unless the author was not paying for any support tier. If they did not have even developer support on the account, then they got exactly what they paid for.