You're talking about an industry where software is a cost. IT is generally a cost for all those companies whose business is "something else". For me obviously t

You're talking about an industry where software is a cost. IT is generally a cost for all those companies whose business is "something else". For me obviously this is short sighted, however, that's the way it is. I have experienced once an ecommerce company where there was a single function with something like 15k LoC, and this was handling with global variables the entire shopping flow. Untouchable and obviously untestable. I'll tell you, the same software I am quite sure it's still running and making money. So yes, it's quite common. All those tech talks, software conferences videos, best practices... And then you work on such crap, it's totally demotivating, I know the feeling.