Welcome to programming’s universal truth: All code decays. Not because we’re bad at our jobs, but because we’re too good at surviving in a system that incentivizes speed over sanity.
I respectfully disagree - I think we ARE bad at our jobs. There are like 4 million SWEs just in the USA, how many in this large of a cohort can really be great at what they do. I ballparking this at <1%