Can someone who's worked in an org this large help me understand how this happens? They surely do testing against major browsers and saw the performance issues before releasing. Is there really someone who gave the green light?
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If you put a lot of momentum behind a product with that mentality you get features piled on tech debt, no one gets enthusiastic about paying that down because it was done by some prior team you have no understanding of and it gets in the way of what management wants, which is more features so they can get bonuses.
Speaking up about it gets you shouted down and thrown on a performance improvement plan because you aren't aligned with your capitalist masters.
If a developer has to put up a fight in order to push back against the irresponsibility of a non-technical person, they by definition don't have ownership.