It seems as though our profession has such a low barrier to entry, especially with open source, that a lot of tooling is seen as having no associated cost.
To draw an admittedly flawed comparison I work at a contract engineering and manufacturing firm. There are some products that we produce by the tens or hundreds of thousand and benefit greatly from a lot of automation in both assembly, testing, packaging, etc. We also do low count production runs that quite simply don't get much automation because the per unit cost would end up being astronomical. There's no reason to tool up for a 100,000 piece run if you're making 10 pieces.
In our field the barrier to entry seems free though. So while git was designed to meet the needs of the linux kernel, people also use it for their own person 1kloc side project. It doesn't stop here of course, introductions for making a simple web app are often filled with tooling, frameworks, etc that need to be included, configured, and used. Undoubtedly these make sense for large projects, but are used for personal sites as well.
To draw an admittedly flawed comparison I work at a contract engineering and manufacturing firm. There are some products that we produce by the tens or hundreds of thousand and benefit greatly from a lot of automation in both assembly, testing, packaging, etc. We also do low count production runs that quite simply don't get much automation because the per unit cost would end up being astronomical. There's no reason to tool up for a 100,000 piece run if you're making 10 pieces.
In our field the barrier to entry seems free though. So while git was designed to meet the needs of the linux kernel, people also use it for their own person 1kloc side project. It doesn't stop here of course, introductions for making a simple web app are often filled with tooling, frameworks, etc that need to be included, configured, and used. Undoubtedly these make sense for large projects, but are used for personal sites as well.