Your standards are reasonable. However, what's missing in a lot of comments is a good process for assessing what the human and business factors that led to wher

Your standards are reasonable. However, what's missing in a lot of comments is a good process for assessing what the human and business factors that led to where the company is now, and how to approach changing it. This is natural as most people here are techies first, but it could lead to setting you up for a bad experience. There are very limited conditions, under which making this a blame exercise would be the right answer. There are also business conditions, under which this situation is the best that the business could have achieved by now. Eg, if other things needed to be higher priority for the viability of the business. Having said that, once you are in such a situation it is difficult to get out of it, and hence such situations tend to linger for much longer than any justification. What you probably need to do now is find out how much appetite there is to change, and what the blockers are.