I think you are in a very lucky situation, and that's probably not the manager's impetus, maybe it's something else. There are very, very few managers who are

I think you are in a very lucky situation, and that's probably not the manager's impetus, maybe it's something else. There are very, very few managers who are realistically in a position to be able to say something like that. There's a good chance you might be working for a nice guy / purist / engineer's manager ... but who might actually not be a very good manager at all. If 'getting it right no matter the cost' were a good company building philosophy, we'd all be doing it! 'Getting it good enough for the market to accept given a limited budget and timeframe' is basically how 99% of the world must operate. It's just reality. That's why being a manager or starting/owning/running a business is hard. Usually really hard.