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Where deviance is normalized, sure. If that dev didn't have to rely on 52 "weird tricks" and half-assed hacks just to keep their local environment running, they might care more about the quality of the product. But when everything around you has the grime of "just do enough to get it barely working", that's the game.

The will to have nice things is a cultural value that some companies just don't have, and if they don't have it for themselves, they won't have it for their customers.






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