> To me, that's the nail in the coffin: all engineers should think about how things ought to work, even if they cannot immediately fix it. This has always been

> To me, that's the nail in the coffin: all engineers should think about how things ought to work, even if they cannot immediately fix it. This has always been a bone of contention between me and my peers or leads: I always intended to drill down to the root of the problem to understand how a system should behave, while most of the time they considered it a waste of time and frustrating. "Patch with a workaround and call it a day" mentality is ubiquitous nowadays, from what I see.