>There are plenty of engineers who are attracted to the challenge and excitement of building new things, but have no appreciation for The Right Way to build things.

It still takes a village to get to this point, which means even in the best case, we're all going to contribute some shitty code to the world because that's just the learning curve.

You can, of course, go a long time without peer review or having ever been shown a better way to do the stuff you just did.