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Having been in an accident, and needing to go to a plastic surgeon as a result, I can assure you, they're quite professional about what they do. If they fuck up, guess what happens? People acknowledge they may end up dead in heart surgery, but for some reason go whack nuts when their face is messed up.
As for pretty shitware: this is the new era, friend. User interfaces are critical, because we're slowly entering the realm of grandma. Perhaps it's not as interesting as writing protein folding in MPI to run on a cluster, but the people writing GUIs were sitting next to you in university. The only difference is they ended up in one job, while you ended up in another.
People need to eat. In a bull market this isn't a problem, but it sure ain't no bull at the moment.