Some examples.
> I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along.
> I kept having this nagging sense that we were mourning different things.
> Here's what I notice about my grief: none of it is about missing the act of writing code. It's about the world around the code changing.
> If you're mourning the context—the changing web, the shifting career landscape, the uncertainty—that's real too, but it's more actionable.
It uses these kinds of patterns over and over that it becomes obvious Just go on LinkedIn.
"It's not X, its Y"