Me (many years ago): Wow, those advanced $PROJECT programmers are so cool! I want to be as good as them one day!
Me (a few years ago): So many programmers write really badly-designed, buggy code! I'm glad the $PROJECT people are making the important underlying infrastructure to a high standard.
Me (now, looking at $PROJECT's code): Egad! They're the worst of the lot! Who made *these* people responsible for something as vital as $PROJECT‽
@wizzwizz4 I wish this was only programmers... People who actually know what they are doing are pretty rare in general, and for a project to be well handled you need quite a high proportion of them. Plus we have pretty strong economic incentives to do stuff quick & dirty...
It's all the more impressive that some projects actually end up decent.
