[flukus]

This seems to be industry and not developer driven, business thinks it's like building a bridge and the manpower (and money) is only needed at the build stage, not the maintenance stage. After it is built money can only be directed into adding features and fixing bugs, not to improving code. This applies at both the macro (project/product) and micro (class, module) level.

We've got a weird situation where the best (best potential) devs are not financially incentivized to reach that potential, the money is in being a locust, showing up, devouring all local resources and then moving on to the next green field.