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Exactly right. Building cowboy software with intense schedule pressure and best practices corner cutting it's likely to give you both late releases and bug backlog long enough to circle Earth three times.

There will be more bugs, and bugs will be more time-consuming to fix.

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And the people who could rectify the situation get the message that their opinions/judgement aren’t valued and give up or go to work someplace else.

I think perhaps people don’t realize that “you get what you measure” has deeper layers to it. You get actions, you get people who are comfortable with those actions, and then you get friction to change this new status quo.

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