[throwawayzza]

> What you think of as doing extra work also ends up causing extra work for other people

This is a very good point but none of the things you mentioned are happening to other people (code review, QA, merge, deploy). Maybe that clarifies the kind of environment I'm working with.

In any case, I understand that even if more work is not being done, more stress is being caused because people just assume things will break in unimaginable ways. I can appreciate how that would be a problem for others.

> everyone else sees you as an unpredictable wildcard causing confusion and extra work

Thanks for the harsh truth. Would you say the kind of work I'm doing has a place in any other type of company? Or at all?