Your job is the venn diagram intersection of an organized system of rewards and punishments from both inside and outside of the firm intersected with your own goals and aspirations over time. Anything not in this intersection is not a job, it's something else we like to delude ourselves into thinking is a job to preserve our egos.
More specifically, your worry about how distorted incentives lead to poor quality software is not your job unless it is your job to worry about said incentives. People keep hoping to go work for one of the magically sane company where all the incentives are correct and everyone is doing the quote-unquote "right" thing at all times. Such a company does not exist because the very concept is incoherent, every system of possible incentives will come with a different set of tradeoffs and the art of operating a firm is to pick from amongst a bunch of shitty options for the least shitty one.
People who do not accept this will be perpetually unhappy and bitter about how others obtain undeserved success because they simply did the unsporting thing of playing the game they were asked to play. You can either be one of those people or you can receive the radical acceptance of what a job is.
