My advice, if your employer is making development not fun anymore move on. Don't stick around. I made the mistake of sticking around a couple of times. If your employer is not allowing time to catch up with new developments on their dime, they are not worth sticking around. Other jobs don't expect you to spent your free time studying just to keep current.
Much of this may be related to supply and demand in the software development labour market. Software development is an attractive job, especially in fields such as games software. This means that employers can exploit developers, knowing that when they are worn out, they can be replaced. This is a rather short term view. Excessive employee churn means that a company does not build a base of expertise. But there are a great number of business decisions that sacrifice long term aims for short term gains. The trouble is, this get rich quick and get out strategy is possibly more economically productive than investing in the long haul, due to current market conditions.
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Much of this may be related to supply and demand in the software development labour market. Software development is an attractive job, especially in fields such as games software. This means that employers can exploit developers, knowing that when they are worn out, they can be replaced. This is a rather short term view. Excessive employee churn means that a company does not build a base of expertise. But there are a great number of business decisions that sacrifice long term aims for short term gains. The trouble is, this get rich quick and get out strategy is possibly more economically productive than investing in the long haul, due to current market conditions.