Well written, I agree based on my experience that you'll end up being penalized in most places as the one who spends a smidge more time incubating quality work. I really feel this now at my job where not only is the work shoddy as promoted by management, the motivations and ideas behind everything are even worse. I'm talking extreme levels of NIH syndrome. It's upsetting to see something like GraphQL, which could just be a gosh darn HTTP request using off-the-shelf libraries, be turned into this absurd Rube Goldberg machine of custom libraries and bizarre workflows.
> Whatever content I have seen from NPR looked well-researched, and politically unbiased
I used to really like NPR growing up, so strange for you to claim it's unbiased and well-researched, because everything I've heard from them on public radio starting around 2010 or so has been increasingly and very obviously partisan to an absurd extent. Portlandia levels of generally race-based monomania and other forms of progressivism.
"something bad" is doing a lot of work there, good job trying to downplay STONING someone