I think it is important to differentiate software agencies and digital marketing agencies. Early in my career I worked at a few digital marketing agencies and this does feel very similar to what could be churned out. Everything was sold on the design. Sales teams would promise, mockups would be signed off on by clients without engineers looking at them, and there was usually a rush because of time and/or money once the project made it to the engineers hands.

I too have worked with such agencies that actually care, and of course they exist. I guess I wanted my hot take HN comment and didn’t take the time to explicitly state that not every software consulting agency produces low quality work. If you don’t mind me asking, did you work on marketing landing pages like this one or something else? These marketing pages in particular are what I am calling out.