The verification asymmetry framing is good, but I think it undersells the organizational piece.

Daniel works because someone built the regime he operates in. Platform teams standardized the patterns and defined what "correct" looks like and built test infrastructure that makes spot-checking meaningful and and and .... that's not free.

Product teams are about to pour a lot more slop into your codebase. That's good! Shipping fast and messy is how products get built. But someone has to build the container that makes slop safe, and have levers to tighten things when context changes.

The hard part is you don't know ahead of time which slop will hurt you. Nobody cares if product teams use deprecated React patterns. Until you're doing a migration and those patterns are blocking 200 files. Then you care a lot.

You (or rather, platform teams) need a way to say "this matters now" and make it real. There's a lot of verification that's broadly true everywhere, but there's also a lot of company-scoped or even team-scoped definitions of "correct."

(Disclosure: we're working on this at tern.sh, with migrations as the forcing function. There's a lot of surprises in migrations, so we're starting there, but eventually, this notion of "organizational validation" is a big piece of what we're driving at.)