I mean, I generally think comments with this kind of attitude aren't looking for serious responses, so I normally don't respond.
That said, there are three things to consider:
1) I honestly don't care whether you think it's garbage or not.
2) I saw some amazing software there, and I saw some that wasn't amazing.
3) It's an immense business, and there is a certain amount of inherent dysfunction that comes with that many people working on anything together much as you would see at any large company.
There's already many articles posted to hackernews frequently at the insane internals of the mobile app, to the "meta verse", to many other things. Most of which are posted by ex-Facebook engineers. I don't need to rehash the same conversations, nor do I need to grant Facebook of all corporations any sort of courtesy.
> Name one successful company that only produces beautiful, elegant, and readable code, with no nasty warts or hacks.
Honestly, I'd genuinely like to hear some of the answers to this, or even just mentions of good codebases to explore.
That said, I don't think that there will be that many that satisfy all of the requirements listed here, because as the scope of a project grows, there will almost inevitably be some technical debt or accidental complexity, or even subjective things.
