“Typical” work, done well and on time with good production reliability, is often hard to get.

Perhaps it’s a sign of your seniority that you think that’s all typical. I’ve seen people release buggy code with no tests, metrics, or monitoring and think they were finished with it. That gets fixed when the more senior engineers step in and demand higher standards.

It’s sad that the baseline for quality in the software industry is so low, but that’s how it is.