The amount of software that needs to be maintained is far greater, therefore there aren't as many "quick wins" to be found anymore. Not to say that new softwar

The amount of software that needs to be maintained is far greater, therefore there aren't as many "quick wins" to be found anymore. Not to say that new software isn't being written all the time, but more and more of what makes up the typical software developer's job is to constantly fix bugs and sacrifice standards to get things done with to Eldritch horrors of codebases. We cope by installing tools like Eslint and telling ourselves it means we have "standards."