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> If I look at someone who has worked somewhere for 3 years and didn't get a title change or promotion during that time, then I get worried that they aren't providing good quality work.

In a country where people care a lot about titles this might be more important. In most Scandinavian companies I have worked in most developers were just “Developer” or “software developer” or similar, no “junior developer” -> “developer” -> “senior developer” and so on. Some large companies might have some internal level system. It might change though, I have started seeing more junior, senior, principal compared to ten years ago.