The customers these days are willing to pay for programs full of bugs that require enormous amounts of resources, so the craft no longer generates profits.
But it also depends on the organization. If your managers love to micro-manage, you will be paid to do things, because someone else believes they know better than you.
> Any mentor type figure is going to be at least partially evaluated by progress of the mentees against some benchmark.
Sounds like the same kind of mistake as evaluating teachers by the grades of their students. Soon people figure out the "one weird trick" how to get the highest score easily.
If you have contacts on the seniors who have left, call them, ask them if they like the companies they are currently working for, and whether the companies are looking for new hires.
In the job interview, give them the list of responsibilities that you have now. Then ask for a higher salary than you have now.
I was a teacher, and I didn't notice anything similar. It's just a job -- if you can do it, you can do it. You can be more experienced, you can be more comfortable with solving certain problems, you can do it better or worse, but there is not... this.
Some software developers seem to be in a lifelong dick-measuring contest. "You are not a true X unless you know this one important thing that I know." Okay dude, now do you expect Miss Teacher to come and praise you for how clever you are? You know some things that others don't, perhaps the others know some things that you don't, why is the former important for being a true X and the latter is not.
In software engineering, "senior" or not usually means you can be trusted to take on certain problems vs. others.
In US primary school (an industry I've never worked in), this might be close to something like teacher, curriculum planner, assistant principal, principal, district supervisor, etc.
As you progress further in your field and hone your skills and knowledge, the scope and impact of your responsibilities should grow.
Most people suck at math. Those who don't suck usually have many well-paying jobs available for them. There are lots of schools, so many math teachers are needed.
Put these numbers together, and you realize that there is no way to have math teachers who are actually good at math. The numbers just don't add up.
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