> Sadly, I have realised fewer people actually give an F than you realise; for some, it's just a paycheck.

I found that most of the "people problems disguised as technical problems" are actually generated by people who get far too invested in their work and let it define them. They get territorial, treat any lost argument as an attack on their whole self, etc. They also lose perspective, getting into flame wars over indentation styles or minor API syntax quibbles.

People who show up for the paycheck are usually far more reasonable in that regard.