I agree in an ideal world where it's easy to get time to prioritize optimizing something (whether it's performance tuning or refactoring). Even in the most matu

I agree in an ideal world where it's easy to get time to prioritize optimizing something (whether it's performance tuning or refactoring). Even in the most mature organizations, getting that time to do non value-producing work is challenging and so seemingly premature optimization is a pragmatic tradeoff.