> What a utopia, where code quality matters in all domains!

It does. The degree may not, though.

"We have a threshold of at least 5 hours total uptime every 24 hours" is still a quality bar, even if it is different to "We have a threshold of 99.99% uptime per year".

Maybe you're different, but I prefer to write code that at least attempts to be performant, tidy and readable, as well as working at least 90% of the time. Maybe I don't achieve perfection, but I try to care about the quality of what I write

If you could prove what "minimum viable quality" actually was this would be true. We have standards and procedures exactly because it is unknowable. One engineers idea of "good enough" might bankrupt the business.