> We're a clown industry.

Who's we?

The issue is simple: YOU work for clowns who prioritize financial success above all else, including quality of output. You usually don't have the ability to say "No" to a bad decision made by a senior person. Deadlines, managers dumping more work, feature creep, etc. Then, when you can't deliver they taunt you for their incompetence. So you eat shit all day long churning out crap. That or management hires the bottom of the barrel because its cheap and maybe one or two seniors who eat turd sandwiches all day, give up and ship shit. Enjoy workplace hell. Fire your incompetent boss.