I think you're absolutely right. I also think that trying to become a better person is an important part of living a full life. The work I put in during the hours I'm being paid are a part that life.
In research that studies a large enough population there will always be outliers. Maybe you are one of them. Your counterexample does not prove them wrong.
You're right that version control is there to help, but it doesn't by itself stop you from pushing out broken code to production. That's the fear: landing bad code on user's machines.