[quinnirill]

I largely agree with you and share your sentiments. However, in software there’s plenty of standard bearers distracting us from the real issues by trying to push for things like having CI break when you spelled something ”colour” instead of color. In fact, the whole industry is full of nitpickers who want to gatekeep others’ entries based on arbitrary rules like where braces, tabs, spaces or semicolons go, because it lets them come up with the rules and enforce them instead of doing the hard work of solving the real problems.

So it’s not so much that we don’t have people pushing for quality, we do. We just can’t agree on what quality even looks like.