That's because everyone in this comment section is giving wisdom about how to deal with the emotional reality of being abstracted from the fruits of their own labor. "Don't get attached to your work" is dystopian.

Man, what a commentary on my career

Alternatively, they just accidentally (I assume) called you a good storyteller.

Starring Excel as the pig.

Is it possible that you thought this because the words "black mirror(ed)" are mentioned in the article iteslf?

You should have kept going.

Spoiler alert: It turns out they were fulfilling a Babylonian prophecy the whole time. The whole development cycle was a complicated sacrifice to Marduk.