I get your take here, but as someone who's worked very hard at times to optimize builds (amongst other things), the business just generally doesn't respect those efforts and certainly doesn't reward them. Often times they're actively punished with a reflexive assumption that they're not "serious" efforts worth the time of the business. (There's the odd exception, but this is very widespread in my experience)
Sure, there's a balance to be made between cutting wood and sharpening the saw. Who do we blame when the boss-man won't allow anyone to sharpen the tools even though we're obviously wasting outrageous amounts of time? You blame the people that won't allow those investments to be made.
When you multiply that across an entire industry, add some trendy fashionable tech (that's also just fast-enough to be tolerable), and this is how we end up in the shitty circumstance you describe.
And yet I still wouldn't trade my fancy IDE and slow CI pipelines for a copy of Turbo Pascal 7, as fast as it would be!
Sure, there's a balance to be made between cutting wood and sharpening the saw. Who do we blame when the boss-man won't allow anyone to sharpen the tools even though we're obviously wasting outrageous amounts of time? You blame the people that won't allow those investments to be made.
When you multiply that across an entire industry, add some trendy fashionable tech (that's also just fast-enough to be tolerable), and this is how we end up in the shitty circumstance you describe.
And yet I still wouldn't trade my fancy IDE and slow CI pipelines for a copy of Turbo Pascal 7, as fast as it would be!