Maybe to some extent I am. But I have enough senior/architect experience to have dealt with all of the issues the author raises. Inheriting tech debt, bad dev

Maybe to some extent I am. But I have enough senior/architect experience to have dealt with all of the issues the author raises. Inheriting tech debt, bad developers writing code that needs to be immediately re-written, lazy developers that just don't give a fuck, etc. With a perfect team of developers and a perfect management team, there would be no problems. Unfortunately, we all have to deal with idiot developers or idiot managers or idiot customers at least occasionally. I don't intentionally enable fuckery, but I've learned long-term career happiness depends on picking your battles wisely.