I’ve certainly seen it different because I make sure it happens. What you’re talking about is the human equivalent of tech debt. Occasionally you need to take

I’ve certainly seen it different because I make sure it happens. What you’re talking about is the human equivalent of tech debt. Occasionally you need to take out a loan, but you had better have a good reason why and a plan to pay it back. If there’s crunch to get something live and then people scale back, that’s one thing. But if the product/company/whatever is only successful if people work in an unsustainable way then it’s not actually successful. Better to understand that before everyone is burned out and miserable.