> This seems to be a more common modern phenomenon where people need to pump out something to look good/productive and then coast away before the challenging ef

> This seems to be a more common modern phenomenon where people need to pump out something to look good/productive and then coast away before the challenging effort of making things work together occurs. I would say this issue is exacerbated by the mass adoption of "agile" where integration is always an afterthought since business leaders are often the dictators. For me it is the latter over the former. I would love to do a 3 point business feature every sprint and spend the rest of the time cleaning up code. Between the POs pushing work onto my plate, as well as everything else I have to do (releases, code reviews, fixing regressions etc.), cleaning up old code is a luxury at the moment.