alt Hacker NewsWhy? Is it because most programmers can get paid from a company and not most drawers or musicians? Is it that programmers don't give enough free code on Github, or that their PRs don't wax and wane about how beautiful they found their specific bugfix to be?
If you see the whimsical in a PR changing some column name in a table in a billing system, or you feel the magic and fantasy of a REST API, or yet, God forbid, the emotional undertones of fixing a NPE because the previous change did not consider that a field was optional, then you may have trouble to perceive the difference.
I, at least, never wrote a stock management system to explore the depth of human emotions.