I often wonder why the developer experience conversation always seems to circle back to tools. You see it everywhere: blog posts about the best IDEs, conference talks about CI/CD pipelines, LinkedIn threads debating build systems. Don’t get me wrong. Tools matter. But here’s the thing: I’ve watched teams with cutting-edge toolchains struggle while others with decent-but-not-amazing tools absolutely thrive. That gap? It’s everything we’re not talking about.Tools are easy to discuss because they’r...