alt Hacker News> engineers work for the company, not for users
Honestly I don't see a big difference between that sentiment and "I was just following orders".
That kind of mindset eventually leads to situations like yesterday's headline about the Artemis astronauts finding out that their computer inexplicably runs two instances of Outlook which both do not work [0].
Situations like Windows updates causing data loss by updating and rebooting without the user's consent.
Or situations like one year ago when I had to help an elderly person after MS suddenly replaced the easy to use Mail app with an enshittified one that wasn't just much more complicated, but also had an untranslated English interface because MS couldn't be bothered to translate it before forcing it onto users worldwide.