Yes, the thing is that the concepts of polish and requirements are not stable across different perspectives. What I am calling requirements were viewed as unnec

Yes, the thing is that the concepts of polish and requirements are not stable across different perspectives. What I am calling requirements were viewed as unnecessary flourishes by someone else. The comment is actually motivated from experiences in my work. There was always this constant resistance from a colleague to do what I thought was a basic requirement, where he thought was unnecessary. So it is much more a matter of culture, the constructed meaning of those concepts and how they translate in practice that shape the discussion. It is a matter of quality and how different people have different perspectives on the matter, none of them being objectively wrong, because how on earth can you even be objective about it? There is nothing in essence that says that a project with well documented design principles is better than another, otherwise you would just say "it is better because it is", when in reality "it's better just because I say so and the team agrees".