In business the goal of software is to make money. Elegant solutions do not necessary increase the bottom line. Increasing productivity at the cost of elegance is a net win in most cases.
And yet I've seen plenty of business spend a huge amount of time and effort on "enterprise" abominations to attempt to build elegant extensible systems. I've seen at least a dozen instances of cron businesses re-invented. I've seen business throw money down bottomless holes on proprietary databases. There's a well known tech company that now owns two bloated electron based cross platform text editors, neither ever had the goal of making money, at least directly.
Business is great at wasting money on software, I just wish they'd waste it in a way that benefited people.
Business is great at wasting money on software, I just wish they'd waste it in a way that benefited people.