A whole lot of people, the vast majority that I’ve talked to, can easily answer this—“because they pay me and I’m not sure anyone else will”, with a bit of “I know this mediocracy well, and the effort to learn a new one only to find it’s not better will drain what little energy I have left”.
Or “last time I did that I ended up in this one which is even worse than the previous, so I do not wish to tempt fate again”.
Ouch. Sometimes the answer to “Why don’t you simply X?” is “What makes you so sure I didn’t already ‘simply X’ in the past, and maybe it just didn’t work as well as advertised?”.
It’s not necessarily that the strategy is bad, but sometimes it needs a few ingredients to make it work, such as specific skills, or luck.
Or “last time I did that I ended up in this one which is even worse than the previous, so I do not wish to tempt fate again”.
Ouch. Sometimes the answer to “Why don’t you simply X?” is “What makes you so sure I didn’t already ‘simply X’ in the past, and maybe it just didn’t work as well as advertised?”.
It’s not necessarily that the strategy is bad, but sometimes it needs a few ingredients to make it work, such as specific skills, or luck.