It's the eternal opposition between taking shortcuts and doing things the easy, cool and dangerous way vs. planning and optimizing and doing things the boring,

It's the eternal opposition between taking shortcuts and doing things the easy, cool and dangerous way vs. planning and optimizing and doing things the boring, slow and cautious way. In the specific case of configuration files, the danger is easy to underestimate because configurations are often considered a minor, easy,low value part of an application.