Media technicians have it similar... no one notices when everything goes right, but one mic dies onstage or one video glitches, everyone's blaming you.
I've always wondered that, I've seen a few of these but I've never actually seen it explained.
It's always just been like, one of those things the arts just kinda does.
Programmer 1: spend three days reading and doodling before even touching the keyboard, his code works. Programmer 2: pushes ten commits to the repo each day, gets behind schedule, some features are missing, there are bugs, a team works on the bugs, one month later the code is slow and weird but it doesn't crash anymore. Management thinks that Programmer 1 is a slacker and had an easy task, while Programmer 2 put a lot of effort and perseverance on a task that was 'obviously' difficult. In truth, Programmer 1 was thinking and designing, while Programmer 2 is shit. Programmer 2 still gets a raise.
It's always just been like, one of those things the arts just kinda does.