Easter Eggs and Bug Backlogs: When Developer Whimsy Feels Tone-Deaf

There's a special kind of frustration that comes from watching a product you love ship a hidden dinosaur game or a secret disco mode while a bug you reported two years ago collects digital dust. But is that frustration always warranted? Let's unpack why companies build these things, who actually builds them, and whether they really steal time from the work that matters.