I tend to not write documentation because with a massively understaffed team it is futile. If we had 10 devs working on this project we could all spend a month

I tend to not write documentation because with a massively understaffed team it is futile. If we had 10 devs working on this project we could all spend a month focusing on docs and significantly move the needle. Right now I'd have to slave away for 10 months to get the same amount done on the docs backlog. So it doesn't happen, because I want to write code and not docs all day long. When I look at the many person-years of backlog of documentation that needs to get done I just get demoralized and that makes me not care about any of it. Want more documentation? Hire more devs. And putting barriers in the way so that I can't code without docs just pisses me off when I'm demoralized. Make it take twice as long to code anything and I'm definitely thinking about looking for other work.