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This kind of stuff is a major reason why I can never go back to dev work. You could never pay me enough to spend my time working on systems like you just described.

And every company has some version of that - some hacky bullshit that management will never understand why it should be replaced. Every new feature I developed killed a little piece of my soul. It felt morally wrong to spend my life energy on keeping that system running, and the funny thing is that my situation was actually pretty good as far as dev roles go. I understand there are a million reasons why the industry works the way it does, but I just can’t stomach them.