I would absolutely refuse to ship anything of this piss-poor quality. I would refuse to even participate if I wasn't allowed to achieve at least the existing to

I would absolutely refuse to ship anything of this piss-poor quality. I would refuse to even participate if I wasn't allowed to achieve at least the existing tool's quality level. In fact, I have done similar things. For example, I was asked to develop a protocol-shim for an authentication system used by tens of thousands of people accessing one of the largest SAP systems in the country. I wrote the code, tested it, and said to the PM that the only thing missing for go-live is some HTTPS certificates to make it secure. He asked me to go to production anyway to meet his deadline, and that the certificates will be fixed up later. I straight up told him: "No." The look on his face was hilarious. He called my boss, my boss' boss, and up. I told all of them: "No." We waited for the certificates to be issued.