There should be leadership at the top focussing the efforts of developers though. Developers wanting to make new stuff doesn't only happen because of turnover.

When they don't like it. You disagree with the regime, but the vast majority of UKranians do not.

That's literally censorship though. If you get fined for saying a thing, you are being censored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

This is exactly why LLMs will replace humans: even if the work is crap, nobody will be accountable for the crap work, and it saves money.