I think it matters everywhere -- just because some fields get away with making trash doesn't mean that they're not vulnerable to people taking their lunch by making something distinctly-not-trash. People put up with a lot when there's lock-in, but there's a breaking point. (I say now using a linux desktop about 90% of the time now because windows has become such a fucking disaster)

I see this sentiment occasionally brought up, and at the same time see what’s happening to Github where the majority of their distributions is not security or efficiency related (not saying it’s because of LLMs, we don’t know). The point is, these things matter beyond beautiful code. You loose trust and you lose customers and money.

Companies that don't care about code quality always care about the side effects of poor code quality. They just can't connect the dots.

Are you seriously implying that technical debt is something that doesn't exist or something that managers don't care about??