Providing higher quality code than necessary is an instance of the handicap principle in the software world. Basically, signaling you are skilled by doing your job in a more costly way. Examples: using strongly typed formal languages, extensive test coverage, hefty documentation
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Perhaps you overdo it on the easy to observe dimensions of quality, in order to convince observers that you are also good enough quality on the harder to observe dimensions.
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Makes sense. Balancing organizational priorities (time to ship, right amount of QA to manage cost of potential bugs) is harder than just maxing out software quality on easily measurable dimensions.
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