alt Hacker NewsYou find it scary that people enjoy what they do? Simply caring about the end result is often not wise, ethical, or sustainable, and the quality thereof is dubious in any case, especially when you consider that the end result of developing software is never just the artifact.
Treating coding as the therapeutic reward for other things (typically tolerating bureaucracy) and then indulging obsessions about it absolutely is unhealthy.
And I've seen exactly this across multiple large and small organizations in multiple countries, in addition to being all over here and the red site.
This is quite distinct from enjoyment.