sysdumb

On your point about using loopholes to deny service. I'm writing this under a more anonymous account too because apparently what I'm about to say is a radical idea and people don't usually get it.

I was charged for a crime once! I spent a month in jail! Me! I did. Yeah. They never managed to directly accuse me of anything and in the end I took a plea bargain to get out of jail (they had already locked me in jail for a month for literally nothing, I would put nothing past them). The most valuable lesson I learned from this is that we are all already guilty of something according to the way the law is written. They only call that in when they need to get you. But be under no delusions that you are not already got. Constitutional justice is pure fantasy in the United States.

If "the bad guys" write rules that make everyone already guilty I have to wonder at what point "the good guys" become guilty themselves. I'm saying the "it's not my responsibility" excuse doesn't cut it anymore.

You win!

One person that knows what they are doing is better than a hundred who don't. Junior devs out there, keep learning and keep getting better. You will have to get used to that anyways as development is a never ending treadmill of self-learning and improvement. But it's better to have zero devs messing up the code and forcing new opinions on the development process. As they say, cut your teeth somewhere else.