>Because the way we do things now is immature. It's driven often by individual developers' needs to leave their fingerprints on something, to be able to say, "this project is now MY project", to be able to use it as a portfolio item that helps them get a bigger paycheck in the future.

AKA resume-driven development. I personally know several people working on LLM products, where in private they admit they think LLMs are scams