>There's more to it than pruning, grafting, weeding. You need good soil, water, light. You need the right tools. You have to understand how to plant. There's fertilizers, insecticides, etc. And like plants, software tends to be organic.
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>Unfortunately, it gets complicated when major software vendors introduce major releases (or even major functionality in a release) and subsequently communicate talking points about those releases that eschew what you've described. That is a battle I've been fighting for over a year now.

Which is why I'm perfectly happy working with a development product that hasn't had a major update in nearly a decade.

One of the things that worries me going forward is that I see less and less opportunity for developers to be experts in anything. I've been doing Fox for a quarter of a century. I know it broadly and deeply. If I change my development product every couple of years, how would I ever get to that kind of deep knowledge, or to that breadth of knowledge? And if I didn't, would my work product be anywhere near as good?

Tamar