[aniou]

A note from someone who specializes in long-term system maintenance:

There is also one, very important aspect, that is - (un)suprisingly - rarely mentioned in comments: a lack of dependence between sloppy work and personal comfort of particular person, responsible for problematic changes.

What I mean? A badly installed or configured system would be a problem in next three, maybe five years: to time of major OS upgrade, HW replacement or refresh, framework deprecation and so, and so... In current, corporate culture, there is almost impossible to being bite by own laziness - almost no one is working in particular company or for particular project so long. Especially, when installation is conducted by external party in model "grab the money and run!"

So, very basic motivation for good work, that comes from awareness, that today technological debt would lead to personal, painful experience in future, doesn't exists at all in modern, corporate environment. The things are even worse - there are multiple relations about negative career consequences resulting from concern for the quality of work: "because we want that product fast a we don't like troublemakers and defensive thinkers".

In consequence, one cannot throw a rock without hitting a dozens of such a cases, like that one: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/release-26-04-lts-without-the...