Well written, I agree based on my experience that you'll end up being penalized in most places as the one who spends a smidge more time incubating quality work. I really feel this now at my job where not only is the work shoddy as promoted by management, the motivations and ideas behind everything are even worse. I'm talking extreme levels of NIH syndrome. It's upsetting to see something like GraphQL, which could just be a gosh darn HTTP request using off-the-shelf libraries, be turned into this absurd Rube Goldberg machine of custom libraries and bizarre workflows.