[kiitos]

In any kind of minimally-effective engineering team, engineers will only ever be working with and maintaining code that's "mission critical" in the sense you're describing here, there won't be any meaningful amount of "non-mission-critical" code worth considering or optimizing.

This is in some sense a didactic assertion: if it's not the case, then your engineering team isn't providing any value beyond what a bash script, gluing-together JIRA tickets and GitHub PRs via the LLM-du-Jour, could do autonomously.

[worldsayshi]

I have never worked in an engineering organisation that lives up to that level of efficiency that you seem to describe. Once you scratch the surface there's always a mountain of things that would help people get more efficient that never gets prioritized.

[kiitos]

And I've never worked in an engineering org that _didn't_ live up to the level of efficiency that I'm describing. I guess, seek better employment?