I’ve only worked in a few large companies where nobody even cared about code quality unless you brought down a production system with a bad change or something.
You’re seriously saying you’ve had 21 years of constantly being second guessed? What kinds of places are you working at?
I've been doing this 15 years and I've been dealing with second guessing or managers acting like we don't know what we are doing the whole time. The problem being the managers are MBAs who know little or next to nothing about software development. They don't like being told differently from whatever narrative they come up with and primarily solely focus on cost.
The company I work for considers themself a MSP. The parent company is a sales company selling non software products.
You’re seriously saying you’ve had 21 years of constantly being second guessed? What kinds of places are you working at?