The really interesting part is IMO this one:
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Personal experience bias in mind: I feel like owners and managers are less interested in resolving tech debt now vs even 5 years ago.. Business owners want to grow sales and customer base, they don't want to hear about how the bad decisions made 3 years ago are making us slow, or how the short-term solution we compromised on last month means we can't just magically scale the product tomorrow. They also don't want to give us time to resolve those problems in order to move fast. It becomes a double-edged sword, and they try to use the "oh well when we hit this milestone we can hire more people to solve the tech debt"... But it doesn't really work that way.
Its also possible I'm more sensitive to the problem now that I'm in them lead/principal roles rather than senior roles. I put my foot down on tech debt a lot, but sometimes I can't. Its a vicious cycle and it'll only get worse the longer the tech sector is stuck in this investor-fueled forever-growth mindset.
Too much "move fast and break things" from non-technical people, not enough "let's build a solid foundation now to reap rewards later". Its a prioritization of short term profits. And that means we, the engineers, often get stuck holding the bag of problems to solve. And if you care about your work, it becomes a point of frustration even if you try to view the job as just a job.
The good news is, with the fed lowering interest rates the cycle of ~~speculation~~ investment will pick right up in a year or two where it left off for a whole 30 months of higher interest. I can't believe they're dropping it so soon, but we can't have unsustainable businesses held to account can we? Better to destroy savers and fixed income elderly.