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You should not lower your standards, rather adjust them to the context. Know when high standards are appropriate and when you should lower your standards.

Sounds like this Amazon app you worked on just isn’t very important. I’m sure someone tried to get more resources to clean it up. But they couldn’t convince the higher ups of its business value. You could try to be a hero and rescue it. But, without a solid business case showing a causal link to business impact your efforts will go mostly unappreciated.