bjertoref

This comment made me imagine what would the guy maintaining my first deployed project at my first company thinks about me. Never had this thought ever cross my mind.

That is like running Photoshop reliably on an encrypted image.

This is Indian Jugaad mentality being imported into Software Development. English equivalent is Kludge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad

I suspect it's not seen as a problem by providers because more lines generated means more tokens used and hence more billing put out on customers.

To generate elegant code with more restrictions, it means more thinking tokens and more stronger adherence to instructions. So tha naive view that they are doing it for billing is wrong.

They'll do some other engineering like thing...

Maybe like work in space tourism industry to Earth-Moon 5 Lagrange points.