TL;DR: shipped
More specifically, I think code quality is a luxury that not everyone has if you work for dumb corpos who think that moving the gantt chart block left will speed up development.
The answer there is probably don't work for those people, but salaries cap out at some point and the allure of megacorps is there.
I'm a CS old head, who has manually allocated / managed memory, and built what would be considered stupid data structures to support scientific efforts.
For me, using AI and getting 0 to 1 experience in languages/frameworks I don't know is ultra. Combining those skills has made me some money in shipping small software, which has been fun.