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by closeparen 854 days ago
In general there are three incentives at Big Tech:

* Develop a platform, framework, standard, or policy that influences (hopefully positively) how other developers work.

* Ship an end-user feature behind an A/B test that proves it has meaningful impact on KPIs.

* Make some organizational annoyance that is popping up on your management chain's radar go away (migration ticket, SLA breach, etc).

Making a UI good for the sake of being good is not one of them. No one cares that you delighted the customer. That only ever happens to the extent that people give a shit beyond their incentives, or the organization is small enough to have outdated and irrational management practices.