LawOfExcludedMiddle

via a pretty user-interface

The most important part of any software. ;)

Why would it be? You work for a large bank, ergo you work in finance.

That is why I could never be a lone software engineer. I need someone else to do the UI stuff, I honestly don't care about it.

[goes back to reading the source code of webpages I downloaded in a UI-less Arch Linux]

What type of software did you sell? Or are you a contractor?

it also helps create good social norms

That, mein Freund, is precisely the problem.