I have pretty severe social anxiety and this industry was a refuge for me.

The added social and political mental load that has crept in over the past decade or so has effectively pushed me to burnout.

And I was a happy "lifer" making subpar salary writing government software. I got to work in a large dark office with other nerds and joked about esoteric things.

But once software development became formalized, homogenized, and micromanaged, I couldn't conform.