Comment by wbsun

Sometime it is not the programmers that don't know the benefits of maintainable code or how to write it, it is the culture that rewards short-term velocity instead of long-term reliability. I've seen superstars designing shitty system and writing messy code to workaround processes and policies to launch quickly, and as a reward, they are promoted like taking rockets. It would be really hard for others to not follow the same path as long as the company needs to make money. Long-term benefits are hard to demonstrate while short-term feature/product launches are so obvious.