The codebase on big sites isn’t impenetrable because developers slavishly followed arbitrary best practices. The codebase is broken because developers don’t talk to each other and don’t make style guides or pattern libraries. And they don’t do those things because the people who hire them force them to work faster instead of better. It starts at the top.

Must read for front-end developers. No, seriously. Don’t, please don’t let the speed at which you write code influence the future maintainability of your code.