The only "staggering bullshit" I see is acting like elegance is a luxury, and waste is irrelevant, and the only value is to ship something, anything, in as litt

The only "staggering bullshit" I see is acting like elegance is a luxury, and waste is irrelevant, and the only value is to ship something, anything, in as little time as possible. (As if the only metrics that matter are the ones that can be evaluated by non-engineers and correlate with short term business outcomes, hm...). The problem is that this attitude leads not only to waste and inefficiency but also to insecure, unreliable, buggy systems that are incomprehensible even to the people who build them, because they are built on layers of poorly understood, overly complicated trash. So we have laziness, incompetence, and waste at every level of the stack, and this is celebrated as efficiency.