Engineers who are held responsible for their work and can go to jail when they get it wrong don't accept work conditions like you describe.

Software engineering might be a better profession to work in if it was regulated the same way other engineering fields are.

Makes you wonder if a governing body will ever come about - eg medical councils/boards, engineers associations etc. Presumably it’s these type of problems that they came into existence for. It’s a double edged sword, but often works in the interest of the profession where I am. The biggest difficulty I’d see is that defining a software developer is not prticularly easy.