It sounds just as likely that you're in a bubble where it sounds like a "patently false" notion - It varies heavily by project, and as you check out smaller (an

It sounds just as likely that you're in a bubble where it sounds like a "patently false" notion - It varies heavily by project, and as you check out smaller (and not necessarily niche, unfortunately!) teams' projects, it becomes increasingly likely that the ad-hoc'ing/prototyping patterns - that can indeed eschew 'details' such as testing/docs/maintainability in favor of 'shipping and adding features' - exist (and can even flourish, depending on the dev). While fortunately as these projects grow the 'rest' of a process model is introduced by others in the community, it's certainly lacking enough to the degree that calling it 'patently false' would be at all accurate.