Solid engineering may not be needed from a business standpoint, but good engineers want to work on solidly-engineered products. If you've got a pile of hacks, a

Solid engineering may not be needed from a business standpoint, but good engineers want to work on solidly-engineered products. If you've got a pile of hacks, and you keep telling developers they can't take the time to clean it up because business needs come first, then speed of feature implementation is going to slowly degrade and eventually grind to a halt. The good ones you'd have tapped to clean everything up will be long gone by the time this happens.