> Early in your career, you can learn 10x more in a supportive team in 1 year, than coding on your own (or with minimal feedback) for 5 years.

I learned 10x more coding C++ and Rust in my room, watching Twitch streams of people doing interesting things and watching Cppcon talks than many years of coding in other languages at work.

> Disorganized or messy code isn’t the same as technical debt.

Try fixing a production problem at 4 AM and having to read some messy code. It will make you think "why did something think it is acceptable to have this in a mission critical system?".

Try having to maintain a critical feature in a non-breaking manner and having to deal with some messy code. It is frustrating.

So, messy code is unprofessional. It's bad workmanship.