You may be right. That does seem to make more sense.

This is not true. Most of the competition are clueless nepo babies who win by default.

The rest are people who have been programming embedded systems since they were 3 months old.

You write clean code and you get replaced in 2 months, because everyone can work on that code.

You write an unreadable mess that no raise will convince other employees to work on and suddenly your holiday requests don’t get declined anymore.