Users will not care about the quality of your code, or the backed architecture, or your perfectly strongly typed language.

They only care about their problems and treat their computers like an appliance. They don't care if it takes 10 seconds or 20 seconds.

They don't even care if it has ads, popups, and junk. They are used to bloatware and will gladly open their wallets if the tool is helping them get by.

It's an unfortunately reality but there it is, software is about money and solving problems. Unless you are working on a mission critical system that affects people's health or financial data, none of those matter much.

I know the customer's couldn't care about the quality of the code they see. But the idea that they don't care about software being bad/laggy/bloated ever, because it "still solves problems", doesn't stand up to scrutiny as an immutable fact of the universe. Market conditions can change.

I'm banking on a future that if users feel they can (perhaps vibe) code their own solutions, they are far less likely to open their wallets for our bloatware solutions. Why pay exorbitant rents for shitty SaaS if you can make your own thing ad-free, exactly to your own mental spec?

I want the "computers are new, programmers are in short supply, customer is desperate" era we've had in my lifetime so far to come to a close.