Sure, but you can still program in C after hours and pretend like it's 1999 without any issues.

Like someone else pointed out, you don't need kubernetes and microservices at home.

You actually often don’t need it at work either, but everyone has been convinced that there’s one right way despite workloads being different.

Agreed

Someone would feed me, put me to sleep and change my nappies and I didn't have to lift a finger

I'm still coding like it's 2001!