My experience is that people adapt differently to different issues, so in a team people can specialize better on the types of bad code they handle best. So the

My experience is that people adapt differently to different issues, so in a team people can specialize better on the types of bad code they handle best. So the code quality degrades less their productivity while they are working than if each person had to deal with the entire diversity alone. But that implies on a division of work that is not aligned with any communication-reducing objective.