What if I told you all of society is held together by duct tape? If you're surprised that startups cut corners you're in for a rude awakening. I'm frequently amazed anything works at all.
Everything, everywhere, is held together by ducttape!
> Websites that are glorified shopping carts with maybe three dynamic pages are maintained by teams of people around the clock, because the truth is everything is breaking all the time, everywhere, for everyone. Right now someone who works for Facebook is getting tens of thousands of error messages and frantically trying to find the problem before the whole charade collapses. There's a team at a Google office that hasn't slept in three days. Somewhere there's a database programmer surrounded by empty Mountain Dew bottles whose husband thinks she's dead. And if these people stop, the world burns.
https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
And if you think that paragraphs does not apply to your applications / company, ask yourself if that's really true. My company sends around incident statistics and there's always some shit that broke. Always.
That said, one can't deny that there are indeed things that do work, and work very well, and people who make that happen, and one can always be amazed/inspired by those. There are good things as well as haphazard things. It's just that the latter generally outnumber the former in many settings. It doesn't necessarily imply a sweeping statement about everything though.