just kind of the nature of the genre for a lot of bands

I think I’m in agreement here, just a matter of phrasing it. It’s very easy for a metal band to think they’re stepping off genre in the albums they’re making if they’re a pioneer of some sort of subgenre (I think the most prominent example for me is Kamelot). So many of them end up making three or four mediocre albums that could have just been collapsed into one good one.

I also notice that some genres end up having really well defined ‘tropes’ that get established and then beat to death over a number of years. If you’ve ever listened to a band like Amaranthe, truly the Nickelback of power metal. They have like 5 albums and I can’t tell which song is from where. Not to say that they’re bad albums, or unlistenable, just kind of blurs together in a pleasant blob.

In comparison, Ghost really changed up their sound. They started off kind of like different Megadeth with a lot more theatrics (which is wild to think about), and now they’re ABBA with distorted guitars… and more theatrics.

Pulling up something from punk(ish) land, Streetlight drops albums so rarely, and they’re perfect shiny jewels every time. Not always totally fresh, but always putting a new twist on the last one.

A lot of metal acts tend to be scared of veering off from their niche subgenre, so they end up making albums that sounds like mashups of their earlier albums.

They have one song and boy are they going to milk it

It used to be pretty meaningful when autocomplete was not as powerful as it is today. Only very serious emacs users could achieve fast and flexible static completion before LSP forced everyone to step up their game.

Now that everybody and their grandparents have LSP available (or even more powerful tools if you’re using Very Professional IDEs), it’s not nearly as much of an issue, just hit tab and never type close brackets again.

It’s not that folks are averse to writing code, it’s more-so averse to actually typing out a shitton of boilerplate and feeling the slog until you actually get to the juicy bits where you have to think.