My previous employer prioritized shipping, won the market while having both more features and more technical debt than competitors, bought those competitors out

My previous employer prioritized shipping, won the market while having both more features and more technical debt than competitors, bought those competitors out as they started failing, and then migrated their clients over and threw their beautiful (but less featured) systems right into the garbage. To this day, I sometimes think back to how a particular competitor had the right schema for solving current problems, but they didn't even survive to the current day, which takes precedence.