Bad architecture takes away your ability to iterate rapidly. Sure, writing crap code is fast at first. But if you let it continue, you end up with a difficult

Bad architecture takes away your ability to iterate rapidly. Sure, writing crap code is fast at first. But if you let it continue, you end up with a difficult situation. You end up with a company where people work harder and harder and nothing gets done. And yes I have seen companies go under for this. Either they lose their competitive advantage of working quickly or they lose customers because of stupid problems that could have been fixed with some planning.