To continue the analogy, there’s something called renting and the range of choices. If there’s no code and you can’t build your own house, you’re left with bad houses built by someone else. It’s more likely to be bad when the owner already knows he will not be living in them as building it right can be expensive and time consuming.

When slop becomes easier, there are a lot more people ready to push it to others than people that tries to produce guenuine work. Especially when theh are hard to distinguish superficially.