It is similar to "are teenagers worse than they used to be?". But in all fairness - from my personal experience - the average code is getting better. It is mos

It is similar to "are teenagers worse than they used to be?". But in all fairness - from my personal experience - the average code is getting better. It is mostly thanks to tooling: languages (write a readable code in PHP vs Python, or C vs Rust), version control (no need to keep tons of unused code that one does not want to throw away), linters getting more widespread, tests and CI becoming a standard.