I can&#x27;t agree with this more. Apathy and clock watching has done more to damage our industry than many other things. It shocks me when developers are willing to do the bare minimum, scrape by and avoid arguing to make things better.<p>Much like the OP, I spend a great deal of time trying to guide my clients to work in ways that guarantee better quality. The mantra in a lot of these places though is &#x27;Features first, feature bug fixes second, other improvements never&#x27;. Without the folks delivering the software (Everyone from QC, DBA&#x27;s, DevOps Engineers&#x2F;Ops and Developers) pointing out the inherent danger in this nothing is going to change.