Most people don't care about their job, they just want to put in minimum viable effort, get paid and go home to their family. Typically they do this because putting more effort didn't bring them anything (not even some recognition of efforts) or even backfired. It's applicable to all jobs, not only in tech.

I get that. My comment has nothing to do with people's pride in their work. I was commenting that there's not enough user demand for better preforming software because users don't seem to mind the software hellscape we currently live in.

You can always just throw money at the performance problem. Cloud is infinite scale, right? Right?!

Right :) Until enough misperforming software is in. Then you start hitting cloud limits and then people start asking: what? how?

So, I guess all I am saying is that you are not alone in these concerns.