In my experience bad code isn’t written for the sake of being bad. A lot of companies don’t value IT and software they work with almost daily as much as they sh

In my experience bad code isn’t written for the sake of being bad. A lot of companies don’t value IT and software they work with almost daily as much as they should. The idea is that if they click a button and it works, it works. Next project. Not enough time, pressure from everywhere to develop new features and behaviours and there you go, badly written code.