> As engineers, it's also our duty to explain to business people the implications of these.

I agree wholeheartedly! It is always a disappointment for me when I'm unable to adequately explain to people why we need to minimize technical debt, or write good tests, or use linting, etc, but I think many developers also struggle with this, and so I don't think it would be fair to say a developer "sucks" for having to drop those to write code that works in the amount of time they managed to negotiate. But, some of the best developers (technically) I know also have pretty bad communication skills!