This is touching on something I have been thinking a lot about as I progress in my career.

The thing good and bad code have in common is the fact that it needs to updated. Either for bugs or changing business need.

So focusing on the operational side becomes much more important. Code is the trivial part. Creating systems that can be modified reliably is the hard part.

I rather have ownership over a "poorly" coded service with proper ci/cd, integration tests, monitoring, and a team that reasons about and follows strong operational processes, rather than some beautiful code in a vacuum.