Gradually improving a long standing codebase subject to stringent production SLAs is actually quite an accomplishment. You are not looking at the bigger pictur

Gradually improving a long standing codebase subject to stringent production SLAs is actually quite an accomplishment. You are not looking at the bigger picture and your dismissing the development regime as incompetent reflects your lack of experience. Would you accept a LOC standard as a measure of 'competence'? How about this: significant continual development of running distributed system with xxx bugs per xxx commits with minimal surprises, as base expectation.