Adopting existing tools that work, applying them to the business problems at hand, and quickly iterating in the business domain rather than endlessly swirling in the vortex of technobabble is woefully underrated. I’ve worked at two kinds of companies before:
One that only cares about measurable business outcomes, accruing technical debt and blaming engineers when no one wants to work with their codebase, ultimately hurting the product. Another that has staff engineers spending all day on linter configurations and writing seldom-read RFCs while juniors want to ditch Celery for Kafka because the latter is hip.

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Adopting existing tools and focusing on core business logic is underrated. Technical people face problems in companies that care only about measurable outcomes or become engrossed in techno-maximalism. Useless metrics can hinder developer productivity. Finding a middle ground is crucial.

Oh my poor business logic