If people are doing a lot of copy-and-paste or boilerplate, then it sounds like a management issue. I suspect other people are in the same boat as you and are j

If people are doing a lot of copy-and-paste or boilerplate, then it sounds like a management issue. I suspect other people are in the same boat as you and are just hacking up anything that works and Just Ship It(tm) to look good. This is a modern version of an old problem, now with all the micromanagement tracking and Github stats, etc. But it's all equivalent to the practice of counting lines of code. And it's wrong for all the same reasons. My answer to this is the same for the last 10+ years. Management needs to read The Mythical Man-Month and internalize it, and you need to find a new job. Too many companies out there think they can run their bloated organization as lean as a startup with all the cruft a "best practices" operation has. Unit tests, end-to-end tests, proper QA, peer review, various code sign-offs, etc. etc. etc. Meanwhile, Joe Bob Developer at Startup Inc. has root access to the prod server and pushed to prod three times before lunch.