And I've trained people who have been writing bad code into writing better code and into delaying all merge requests by also complaining about bad code! >:]

I'd be pretty depressed if I worked somewhere this weren't the case. So it sounds like either your workplace culture is very bad or like mine is very good. (I don't know how common either case is.)

Why else would corporations be the exclusive authors of "middle-level" languages like Java, C#, and Go? ;p JS and Python are too slow, but we can't find enough C, C++, or Rust developers! Let's invent these abominations instead with which we can churn out more good-enough mediocrity per quarter than ever before!