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> Those practices might not harm when you are making basic sites or demo apps in your spare time. But when an engineer with these practices goes to work on something like the software for controlling Teslas, it suddenly becomes a big problem.

Well, the reality is that most businesses only need basic sites and you don't need trained engineers to build them. Basic developers can do it as well and giving them the tooling to do so helps.

There is a lot of value in making programming for "basic" stuff like a CRUD web/mobile app about learning to use tools rather than learning to understand the whole system (i.e. programmer vs engineer).

A comparison I really like: To build a house, you need one engineer for statics, but a lot of construction workers actually putting it together. And even that one engineer for the statics is more for safety than actually necessary, if you build some basic house with the basic default material. Because it's proven over and over again that it holds and the margin for errors is quite large before there is any risk of collapse.