I have made very different experiences. The programmers don't care either. They just want to pump out features, no maintenance, no documentation, no long-term improvements.
It doesn't help that good programmers get flushed out of the industry due to conscience and age, only to be replaced with cheap, shitty ones.
You shouldn't have to argue for it. It's something "project management" should care about as a top-level concern, scheduling time for it. Stability, documentation, tests, performance, security - these are all "features" just as much as "make a button dump a CSV for a user".
That's how people are taught. In most companies nobody cares about quality. getting stuff out quickly is where the money is. Slow, deliberate work doesn't pay.
Developers however are quick to point that optimisation is "not in the interest of the business", as can be seen in this very topic, or that something is "good enough" since a lot of people are using.