I will do these for myself and my team but only if management recognizes this as work. If my performance review comes back with a low rating despite me having done this work, I am not going to do this any longer. Management can feel free to deal with consequences.
And this is the crux of a lot of software developer angst. Most management doesn't know the benefit of code quality (refactoring), unit tests, metrics/monitoring, security, etc. and will push back against the extra work they take.
Good software developers do know the benefit of those things. They resist the management's efforts to ignore those things. In the end, the software developer often give in because they know who has the power.
There's balance to be had, and cases where's it's not worth it to put in more effort on certain things... but the boss rarely has any visibility into the tech side of things.
My personal conclusion is to never work under management who are not software engineers themselves. All my bosses understand what building great software entails since they could do it themselves. So what I do to improve qualiry has always their backing. And nobody can BS them into some nonsense.
