I think right now it got out of hand. With a lowered entry barrier to development, now a regular code base feels like reading http://thedailywtf.com/
There's now a social network for developer rants: https://www.devrant.io
There's now a social network for developer rants: https://www.devrant.io
However I think these days, at the higher end of the spectrum, the general awareness of good programming practices is better than it was 25 years ago. Back then, unit testing frameworks weren't a thing, I didn't see any CI, often code repositories were zips on a file share..., patterns were barely a thing....