That's a fine argument for a bootstrapped startup with one product, but isn't meaningful when talking about the tech titans that suffer from the exact same prob

That's a fine argument for a bootstrapped startup with one product, but isn't meaningful when talking about the tech titans that suffer from the exact same problems. This is the same type of argument that makes short-term profit take precedence over long-term success. Why in the world are we getting a deadline of 4 months? You, as an executive, had to know burn rate was blowing through cash a lot earlier than that. Engineers hate releasing poor quality products because we know we'll eventually have to fix them and we will likely be given almost no leeway time-wise to fix the actual debt, as time will always favor ugly hacks that "work" over well-written code that prevents the problem in the future.