I've spent many months trying to "easily move" an MVP over, after being saddled with a bunch of horribly structured data that has taken a massive amount of effo

I've spent many months trying to "easily move" an MVP over, after being saddled with a bunch of horribly structured data that has taken a massive amount of effort to unravel. Devs need to stop thinking of it in such binary terms. You can get things out fast without pushing out crap. You can write organized code, built so it can be optimized if it ever needs to be, without it taking too much overhead. You don't need to swing the pendulum all the way to one side or the other.