> you KNOW it's a lot more damaging, costly, and disruptive

Maybe. It certainly is more damaging to the ego, but ego is cheap. Bugs are not all created equal and have different costs to fix, and different affects on the business. For example, and architectural mistake will cost a lot to fix and can be exploited by competitors to take customers. A tiny logic error might take 5 minutes to fix, and affect a small number of users and have zero impact on the overall business. There's also tiny bugs that cost a lot (oops decimal in wrong place on bills)...