> Boss asks how much money are we losing because of this. You have no answer. What do you do? This is my point. If you can't answer the first and most basic qu

> Boss asks how much money are we losing because of this. You have no answer. What do you do? This is my point. If you can't answer the first and most basic question with hard data, you're fucked. There is literally no point going to one's boss and saying "this is morally wrong" unless you can make a business case. (or your boss has the same world view as you.) If you can't argue that your change is going to move a KPI for the better, you've lost your argument. I know lots of "tech" people like to waft about thinking that they are above such mundane things as buisness KPIs (OKRs if your management team has swallowed google's rubbish) Thats why they think they are such maligned geniuses. Tech is an enabler for a business to do business. Its just another tool, like a warehouse, van or envelope. If you want to make sure you're not going to get slung out during the next re-org, you have to make sure that you are performing to what the _buisness_ wants from you. Thats a two way street. for example, marketing come up to us and say: "we need a microsite for the conference thats coming up" Sure I could make a K8s cluster to host a website. But I could do it quicker and cheaper by using a PaaS(or Saas), trumpet the speed and clarity of my execution, underline in triplicate the capex cost I've saved (ignoring the opex, because they won't find out about that till next year, plus it's not my bill, I'm measured on staff costs.) Is it cutting edge? is it fuck. Does it get me browny points? you bet ya. I can then spend those browny points on trying to change things about my working environment that I don't like. As I've made marketing happy, I can work on them to find a better tracking company, or better yet, get them to pay us to develop their BI pipeline. Sure its not a "pure tech" experience. But I can affect way more change than reskinning the website in yet another framework, following the latest animation style guide from some sadistic nonce claiming to be a UX guru. So No. I wouldn't quit over this. Because I'm not a Wilde-esq dandy.