Yes, in many economically developed countries "economics" is based on banks and similar shit that just makes money from money. No real consumer products manufacturing is involved.

you already know the result. And it’s basically impossible to avoid

Well, yeah. Spoilers are unavoidable in sports...

Just gather your friends, beer, whatever, and watch a match 2 days later. I'm sure you won't notice any difference (except for the absence of ads, of course) :)

No idea what this program is for, but from the practical use point of view, the example from the image is horrendous: 35x11 is calculated trivially as 35x10+35. Not that craziness.

Sports fans could learn something from gamers: there is such a thing as "patient gaming" when you don't buy a game as soon as possible but wait until all bugs are cleaned out, DLCs are released, etc. Wait a year and you will get the game you want for significantly lower price, and the game itself will be polished as it should be. In the case of sports, it wouldn't take a year, more likely a few days until you will be able to get a record without ads, with the best commentary and points of view. The situation with prices and ads won't change until you force it to change "with wallet".

I am too poor to afford a can of anything...

Use adblockers. At least the internet would be clean from this ad-shit.

The quality is important, though. Not every tiddy is tiddy enough. But yes, no tiddy image worth $30.

I'm a simple man: bigger numbers mean newer version. And that's enough for me :)

Did the manager ask

How can I know? Plus engineer could easily lie as he did it right from the start.

but he needs to understand what his/her people are saying.

It isn't enough to detect deliberate lies from an engineer like in this case.

Ok, now fire him.