It’s simply because science in Soviet Union pays shit. So men went to greener pastures (businessmen or bandit).

I’d say ‘Imposter Syndrome’ + ‘Past Job Position Trauma’. There should be good review process and good pipeline with automatic testing and static code analysis, it shouldn’t be a responsibility of a single person.

Nobody knows (/s) but you don’t have to write keywords in upper case (for most DB’s default settings anyway).