The real problem succinctly: people think that quality and quantity are mutually exclusive. Or to go further, that those are also mutually exclusive with inexpe

The real problem succinctly: people think that quality and quantity are mutually exclusive. Or to go further, that those are also mutually exclusive with inexpensive. That's why the industry is flooded with bugs and low quality, cheap labor. Note, I did not say "junior devs" because I've often found the attributes of a high quality developer are more innate (albeit possibly dormant) than taught. If I can write code twice as quickly, it performs twice as well, and it's much more maintainable, I have a real hard time emphasizing with anyone's legacy/performance woes. It's like people forget the word premature in the common optimization quote. It's not premature to develop with an optimized mindset because it rarely costs anything more than your more expensive salary. You can have a reasonably optimized mindset without needing empirical proof on all but the most nuanced problems.