[tmp_anon_22]

Your ability to understand how bad software is has improved too. The ambition of software has increased in this same time. The industry is as a whole probably doing things better, for example - less ridiculous crunch periods at the organizations I've worked at.

[timhrothgar]

Interesting take! I think this would apply to me personally. Though, I'm uncertain if it impacts old and large codebases. They could've theoretically been maintained by intelligent, experienced, and disciplined engineers for a decade even if their standards changed.