There are plenty of slow moving projects that focus on the stability of the codebase if you work for a business that isn't a "tech company" and work on services instead of products.
indeed sweeping industry-wide conclusions are often drawn upon technology. however these generally apply to web/apps only. for example, in this thread we have someone extolling the virtues of not reviewing code. this is probably correct in the context of web/apps, but doesn't hold true otherwise. similarly the linked article talks about the frustration of being forced to merge known bad code - acceptable behaviour when the product is pictures on a screen, otherwise i have not observed this behaviour to be systemic
That's also just as untrue. Why wouldn't most B2B services outside of SV be web-based?
There's a much bigger and broader economic world out there than HN usually discusses these past few years. We used to hear more about it before LLMs flooded the front page.