I definitely agree that quality doesn't have to be a boolean, and it also doesn't have to be a loaded term like the author seems to believe. I have a lot of di

I definitely agree that quality doesn't have to be a boolean, and it also doesn't have to be a loaded term like the author seems to believe. I have a lot of discussions at work that end with something like "we all agree that X would be the quality/elegant/long-term solution, but we don't have time to do X right now, so we'll do the hacky solution Y until we have time to implement X." These are good decisions! The immediate problem gets solved fast, and we've identified a really good elegant solution and given ourselves enough time to implement it.