Agree with everything else you said but take some issue with this: > Shitty developers are going to make shitty software. That’s really not the point I was tr

Agree with everything else you said but take some issue with this: > Shitty developers are going to make shitty software. That’s really not the point I was trying to make. It’s more of a trap to blame ICs on the ground in most situations when they’re usually only following existing practices. All this will do is demoralize your engineers. Mismanagement in the form of poor staffing choices (especially moving tenured and experienced engineers to the next shiny thing) is often the culprit. This usually stemming from the pressure from leadership to ship stuff fast, as usual. Once you sacrifice quality of any kind, that bar gets lowered for good, and before you know it there are so many examples of poor quality that any issues get lost in the noise.