I think the idea that optional extras are seen as required is more telling. I suspect there are a lot of younger programmers with these views, who don't know e

I think the idea that optional extras are seen as required is more telling. I suspect there are a lot of younger programmers with these views, who don't know elsewise. Testing suites, having dedicated test/dev environments, all of these things are relatively new across most programming on the web. "Best practice" has changes more times than I can count in the last 20 years, and we've gone full circle from "monoliths are bad, split everything into microservices" to "maybe try combining them to reduce complexity". I'm not saying this style of coding is the best, but automatically assuming the current practices are the definitive best ones in all cases is silly, and the idea you have to refactor because it doesn't meet those practices is - in my view - insane and wasteful.