==rant
Cleaning up others mess is not a responsibility stated in the job descriptions of software engineers but they end up doing it every other day!

I wish that was my primary job description,

would love to only be a 'maintainer'

Its like a hidden clause in the job description.

Job Requirements: This language, that language blah blah..

*PS: You also need to be comfortable with optimizing and clearing out spaghetti code written by incompetent devs.*