I appreciate your response, above. For me it is less about employers and more about clients, and it is less about frustration and more about an open challenge.

I appreciate your response, above. For me it is less about employers and more about clients, and it is less about frustration and more about an open challenge. So your advice can maybe translated as "fire your customer". And I partly agree. There are two sides though. For one, as I'm growing and learning, I see more potential to make things better, more robust, more usable and long lasting. On the other hand we (small team) have a principle that we don't sell things our clients don't need, and we make that very clear and have said "no" in the past to adhere to that principle. So it is really a balancing act of really understanding and communicating what technical and design quality means vs. understanding how providing it will positively impact our relationships and their goals. I've been thinking more and more about this issue in recent years, because I realized that I/we cannot compete on quantity or speed, but rather on trust and quality if that makes sense.