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Software developers are just responding to incentives. Managers/Product owners want features and aren't too bothered with defects, as the idea of bugs is so normal now. Do they care about defects? Yes, but only if the cost to fix them doesn't change the deadline.

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Nobody cares about a bug unless it's highly visible or dooms the product, and would rather you just cram feature after feature in. Nobody's ever been promoted for great work maintaining the old version, or for reducing our bug count by 50%. The result is a product that you cannot be proud of, because it's literally the worst thing that the customer will still buy.

Yep, totally agree. Writing quality code is always on my mind but when something needs to be delivered yesterday what are you going to do? Options are: delay the release or release it with the crap we wrote

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