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The problem with this attitude (and please don't take this as a personal attack) is once a few people with this attitude come through a codebase and make their "practicality" compromises, the codebase devolves into mediocrity.

For a little more context, I work on dev tools for an org of ~400 engineers. There is always someone trying to do things the quick and dirty way and move on without consideration for how the other 399 people may be impacted.



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