This seems cynical and wrong. I've never written a line of code for the purpose of "resume padding." Trustworthy code is absolutely useful to a development team

This seems cynical and wrong. I've never written a line of code for the purpose of "resume padding." Trustworthy code is absolutely useful to a development team. But writing that code is HARD. Training a growing team to write that code is hard. Banging out new features, on the other hand, is (at first) easy and seems more fun.