I have to say, as someone working in a stable non-tech company, it isn't all roses and unicorns. The code base is absolutely awful, mainly because a lot of non-technical people have hacked it together. And there is never time or money to attempt some kind of cleanup.

It gets exhausting having to repeatedly say "we are going over budget due to unforseen complications as a direct result of low quality code".

It gets exhausting having to constantly rework solutions to fit the boneheaded design decisions made with zero forward thinking.