If you said any other career except programming I'd agree with this, but programming is literally the least gate-kept of the high-paying careers. Anyone can break into programming, all you need is the internet, interest and aptitude to understand code.
Edit: not trying to derail what you had said either, just a comment
Not saying this is that, but just a thought and I’d be curious to see if this is a trend that continues.
This is not how a conversation goes. The typical response would be not to engage about puzzle games, but to tell you in blisteringly mind-numbing detail how great the shooter they're currently playing is and how they got out of a tight situation and blasted the opposition.
Because that's the conversation they want to have with you, and they won't be dissuaded.
A practical example:
Your program starts out accepting a config file that looks like this:
enableLogging: true
Then it changes into: logLevel: WARN
Then that becomes: logging: {
level: WARN
file: system.log
}
Then: logging:
fileLogger: {
level: WARN
file: system.log
}
And finally: logging:
- fileLogger: {
level: WARN
file: system.log
}
- consoleLogger: {
level: DEBUG
}