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Yep. Also, speaking from academic point of view, code won’t make you advance on your career by itself (only papers based on it will), so the minimum is done until the thing is usable for its goal. So forget about CI/CD, proper test suits, documentation (I hate this point personally and document my projects a bit more than the average researcher) and engineering best practices.

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Then public policy should heavily discount results based on academic code, if it shown to be poorly engineered. I'd go further and say you can't trust the papers based on the results of badly engineered simulations. As a poster said earlier "I think there should be fairly high standards of scientific rigor even in published code, especially if this might impact public policy actions, like we should expect high rigor in biological and epidemiological studies."

...what do you think those biological and epidemiological studies hinge on? ;)

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