The problem is that the business doesn't trust programmers to build the software in the direction they want. Which is honestly a valid concern, I'd spend way m

The problem is that the business doesn't trust programmers to build the software in the direction they want. Which is honestly a valid concern, I'd spend way more time than they'd want refactoring and optimizing the code to be cleaner and more extensible, and that gets in the way of piling up the features.