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OK I'm going to stand up for programmers. IME whilst there are a few that really don't care, most programmers want to do a good job. Or they at least start out that way. Where they don't care it's often because they've had it beaten out of them by the system.
Thing is if your going to judge them as incompetent or not caring about quality etc. you not only have to know what the code looks like, but you have to know what they were asked to do. I can easily see someone making a decision that the choice of font sizes should be limited for purposes of useability. Whether you agree or not there is a school of thought that says that the more options you expose the more complicated it appears and the less user-friendly it appears. This might be called the Apple ethos. If someone at Amazon wanted people to think that the Kindle "just works" I can see why they might ask the programmers to limit the font size choices.
You and I might disagree. So might the programmer but if the boss says that's what they want...
And spending time on something you've not been asked to do, even where it's good design is at best a (literally) thankless task and at worst a waste of time that will be frowned on.
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