a) likely a symptom more than the cause b) system sunset date is the tienbreaker, its hard to justify shit code for a space probe, and its hard to justify perf

a) likely a symptom more than the cause b) system sunset date is the tienbreaker, its hard to justify shit code for a space probe, and its hard to justify perfect code for an email collector c) automated tests are a development tool, theyre not there to make sure your code works, theyre used to ensure your code is sufficiently decoupled, modular, maintainable, and easily scalable in the future. Theyre also frequently used to spike problems that are otherwise hard to solve. The level of importance of tests you place on your situation is super dependent on your devs. Some types of project i wouldnt write tests for. Others i do. It depends on scope and experience. d) yes, maybe