Having programmed for 50 years and going strong, why would I want to submerge myself in pettifoggery? It sounds like something to be left to naive young software engineers who need to learn more about the real world.
Depends if you are motivated to leave a legacy and a better world for the next generation or not. I can totally understand why you wouldn't want to do legal work but that doesn't mean it isn't the highest impact thing you could do at the stage you are at in your career.
Having been a web developer for about 20 years (on and off professionally), I've seen trends where we start off from a point, it's mess, we clean it up and get towards doing 'best practices' and something comes along to totally mess that up. Usually something with the promise of quick and easy and some how it takes hold. While yes, quick and easy to start, but experienced developers know what is quick and easy in the beginning only means a magnitude of work of resolving what that has caused.
