It's so common that I was shocked to briefly work at a successful company with maybe 100 engineers and a code base that followed no consistent architectural rul

It's so common that I was shocked to briefly work at a successful company with maybe 100 engineers and a code base that followed no consistent architectural rules and principal engineers that had never heard of the things listed in the article. I won't name and shame, but I shudder at the thought of all that organically-grown spaghetti.