I agree with you that one does not have to be excited to ship production quality results. I was previously referring to the 'external "didn't care" enough' whi

I agree with you that one does not have to be excited to ship production quality results. I was previously referring to the 'external "didn't care" enough' which is generally true, and IMO not an inherently bad thing on its own But I am not sure outsourcing to cut costs is happening as much now than a few years ago. The entire outsourcing tech market is shrinking, as most teams prefer to keep devs in-house than to outsource it away.