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> Imagine you’re a CEO: Why on earth would you want your expensive engineers reworking something that already makes money?

CEO will start looking at this topic if app performance/stability metrics will start making impact on revenue stream, aka app is slow and stop working every day and customers go away because of that.

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True, but app performance/stability metrics are (often extremely laggy) trailing indicators of code quality. So by the time the app starts falling over, things are extremely rotten, and it's not necessarily correlateable to any specific maintenance decision(s).

By the time the app starts failing, usually the people who wrote it got burned out and left :/

Which happens if the CEO is conscientious enough to insist on collecting and looking at those metrics.

Heh. Going to be a lot less maintenance work if they are.

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