[netdevnet]

> wait till smooth starts paying back and becomes fast

By that time, you will have probably left the company and someone with less care about code quality will come and undo your work.

Also, like security, it is hard to show to a manager data and graphs showing how much we are saving

[ajmurmann]

Yes, very true. You can only make it work if everyone is bought in and even then it's ready to regress by someone skipping steps and getting praise from the business while other engineers are fixing their stuff.