This is the same old "developers are too focused on quality" story, is focusing on customers important? Yes. Is it the job of the "developer", usually, no.

I've seen it in juniors and in myself, entering into a company excited after hearing all these advices, and realizing that the job is really to "just code".

You do not communicate with the customer, you do not decide the business direction, you simply code, and make sure there are as little issues as possible (usually not stated explicitly), and that new features (as requested by management/customers) are implemented as quickly as possible.

I don't know how to respond to this "developers shouldn't focus on quality" argument any more. Is shipping fast important? Of course. Is understanding the customer important? Definitely. But why is there always this animosity towards "developers focused on quality"?

Where I worked my experience has been the exact opposite, many coworkers have been writing slop long before LLMs were popular, all kinds of horrible hacks, the constant talk about quality was not "we are working on quality all the time", but "quality is so bad my life is so painful".

So, my question to all that fight this "quality obsessed developer" is: Why have I never met any developer obsessed about the code quality, but I hear about them all the time?

EDIT: To be more concise, I think that the "perfectionist developer" is simply a scapegoat for the inherent difficulties and challenges of software development.