And so it goes. I'm happy you guys work in places where you can take your time to design beautiful work of arts, I really am. Again, that's not the experience for everyone else, who are toiling in the fields out there, chased by large packs of rabid tickets.
You can call it dev-first mindset, I call it a sustainable work mindset. I want the people I work for to be happy with my output. Not everything is velocity. I worked in high-velocity companies and ultimately got tired and left. It's not for me.
And it's not about code being beautiful or other artsy snobby stuff like that. It's about it being maintainable really.
And no I am not given much of a time, I simply refused to work in places where I am not given any time is all. I am a foot solider in the trenches just like you, I just don't participate in the suicidal charges. :)
The HN commentariat seems to be comprised of FAANGers and related aspirants; a small part of the overall software market.
The "quality" companies doing high-skilled, bespoke work are a distinct minority.
A huge portion of work for programmers IS Java CRUD, React abominations, some C# thing that runs disgusting queries from an old SQL Server, etc etc.
Those privileged enough to work exclusively at those companies have no idea what the largest portion of the market looks like.
LLMs ARE a "threat" to this kind of work, for all the obvious reasons.