Comment by dheera

> It shows that you can build a crazy popular & successful product while violating all the traditional rules about “good” code.

That was always the case. Landlords still want rent, the IRS still has figurative guns. Shipping shit code to please these folks and keep the company alive will always win over code quality, unless the system can be edited to financially incentivize code quality. The current loss function on society is literally "ship shit now and pay your taxes and rent".