Comment by crystal_revenge

This is an excellent point.

When working at larger orgs on legacy projects (which I have also done) you think "what sort of idiot did this?"

Then when you're the one tasked with getting a project shipped in two weeks that most reasonable engineers would argue needs two months, you start have to make strategic decisions at 2am about what maintainability issues will block the growth of the product on the way to funding and what ones can be fixed before 5pm by someone that will think you're an idiot in 3 years.