If being in tech requires crafting your own rituals in order to stay engaged, what's the motivation to not simply quit and start brewing beer and growing tomatoes while still keeping your own tech rituals? If the fulfillment of working with technology is coming from outside having technology as a career, why stay in technology as a career? Compared to the feeling mentioned between doctors and patients I still don't see any actual compelling reason that staying in tech as a business in its current state is worth it even to the most enthused about technology.
At least for me, and I am going to guess the majority of us, the comfort of a good paycheck outweighs the disillusionment, despite the result being a feeling that you're wasting 1/3 of your waking days on something you don't care about.
Every time I look at some flashy purchase that I'd like and can get with finance (e.g. new car), it always seems affordable, but the long term cost is that I have to rigidly stay in my income bracket or rise above it. There's no room for risk to fail.
