There is a huge difference in the way you write code when you have to support your own code around the clock and it really changes your perspective as a develop

There is a huge difference in the way you write code when you have to support your own code around the clock and it really changes your perspective as a developer as before this I would work for a company with a team of testers and fire and forget code that is deployed and let someone else worry about it later. I now feel bad that I thought this way. After writing my own two products from scratch with ongoing support/subscriptions that ecommerce stores depend on to do transactions my eyes have been opened. It is critical things go right or the client gets very pissed off and loses sales. When its your personal time that gets interrupted from your own work, you simply start to cut the bullshit out of the equation. You end up seeing more code and clever code as a bad thing and tend to simplify everything so it's both easy to understand , reliable, quick to fix, along with ensuring its easily testable in a sandbox env and has great monitoring for uptime and redundancy and can be quickly deployed as a hotfix. My point being is, you do get a better 360 picture when you have to care more deeply because you will effectively make your life a living hell if you don't.