> If the quick hack is well documented, written in a very encapsulated and removable way, who cares about removing it later. That's fine in a system with a sma

> If the quick hack is well documented, written in a very encapsulated and removable way, who cares about removing it later. That's fine in a system with a small number of quick hacks. In reality, the number of quick hacks grows over time and you end up with a brittle system that has a lot of unanticipated behavior that only a few people understand how to work with. You will eventually have quick hacks that exist to fix bugs in the other quick hacks.