On the plus side, there are those of us who are brought in for their experience at untangling these messes and coming up with solid solutions that can scale up

On the plus side, there are those of us who are brought in for their experience at untangling these messes and coming up with solid solutions that can scale up feature-wise. The same people will willingly dig out problems and fix them in production when all else fails. People queue at your door if you have these skills. Mediocre programmers create a lucrative market for unicorn shit as I was once told.