At the end of the day, someone has to shoulder the burden of holding their colleagues to higher standards. I don’t think there’s a technical solution to this social problem.
It could also be a symptom of something else, like I’ve seen this happen when someone goes overboard on unit tests and they become so burdensome that other engineers just want to get it out of the way. They may not consciously realize it, but subconsciously they know that it’s BS and so they don’t mind BS names to just move on with actual productive work.
Not saying it’s always the case, but it could be. Higher standards are not always better, they have diminishing returns.
It's all a spectrum of trade-offs with different people having different opinions.
There could be some sort of formula to explain this better to determine how much effort to spend on tests vs features and product quality and importance of quality compared to that.
