Yeah, OP is definitely an early engineer, or not very intelligent. Enterprise software takes longer because there's multiple stakeholders and it's better to tak

Yeah, OP is definitely an early engineer, or not very intelligent. Enterprise software takes longer because there's multiple stakeholders and it's better to take a week to build it properly than it is to hack it and fix bugs for the next 3 months. The decisions you take to build software has to include the expected scale. If you're pushing something to 10 users, you'll take different decisions than if you push it to 20M users. This is done at the planning phase, and senior engineers are aware of this. I'm not going to spend 2 weeks optimizing the shit out of a system that'll be used by 10 people.