[sebastiennight]

> There is no best practices anymore, no proper process, no meaningful back and forth.

Reality check: none of that ever existed, unless either the client mandated it (as a way to tightly regulate output quality from cheaper developers) or the developer mandated it (justifying their much higher prices and value to the customer).

Other than that: average customer buying code from average developer means:

- git was never even considered

- if git was ever used, everything is merged into "master" in huge commits

- no scheduled reviews, they only saw each other when it's time for the next quarterly/monthly payment and the client was shown (but not able to use) some preview of what's done so far