This is bad - but I doubt there's an engineer in here that hasn't written throwaway code to make a deadline, joked about some code they wrote being "job security" because it's so confusing, or picked a soon to be deprecated package to use because it was quicker to get up and running.

Ethics is lacking in our industry, and as more and more people are laid off, you're going to have the equivalent of tens of thousands of "dead mans switches" going off at every company just out of sheer disincentivization of quality that's become so common in today's engineering culture.