That's true, and I'd lean on the "much worse" side. When you join a project that has very minimal tooling and almost no automation, you're facing a dilemma: should I focus on improving the tooling while delaying features or should I deliver features while making future improvements ever harder to make?
The problem with this is that neither is good for your mental health. Unless you're joining that project with a specific goal of improving its development process, don't bother. Run away. Fast.
Especially if there are already other devs that are militantly against your take on dev process improvements. The level of emotional distress is hard to fully appreciate without experiencing a situation like this. Suggesting the simplest and most obvious things becomes a brutal fight that you're guaranteed to lose. Living without them makes you miserable in its own right. You're trapped between a rock and a hard place with no way out.
If out of various kinds of psychotherapy you pick the one based on an experience of living in a Nazi concentration camp as the most applicable - it's time to run. Really. Don't look back.
The problem with this is that neither is good for your mental health. Unless you're joining that project with a specific goal of improving its development process, don't bother. Run away. Fast.
Especially if there are already other devs that are militantly against your take on dev process improvements. The level of emotional distress is hard to fully appreciate without experiencing a situation like this. Suggesting the simplest and most obvious things becomes a brutal fight that you're guaranteed to lose. Living without them makes you miserable in its own right. You're trapped between a rock and a hard place with no way out.
If out of various kinds of psychotherapy you pick the one based on an experience of living in a Nazi concentration camp as the most applicable - it's time to run. Really. Don't look back.