Exactly. Most restaurants you go to don't care about the food they serve you nor do they care about the products they use, as long as it doesn't harm their business. Same with groceries - manufacturers don't care, as long as what they sell you is acceptable and passes regulations. But once you go to a restaurant with standards, you can immediately tell the difference. I do not come from a wealthy family and even as such, I certainly prefer paying the higher price now that I can afford it.

That's a fair point. I guess step 0 is that you have to care about code/product quality and prioritize it.

Without LLMs, you can still have bad development processes which lead to increasing technical debt with no plan for paying it off.

LLMs let you move faster.

But it's not as if introducing them is the only reason your codebase isn't high quality.