I think this is highly dependent on your product. If you're selling an API, you probably cannot afford to have a shitty API design because no one will want to

I think this is highly dependent on your product. If you're selling an API, you probably cannot afford to have a shitty API design because no one will want to use your API. If you're selling a B2B product, you can probably have a shitty architecture because it's all internal and B2B app are generally lower scale. Though in saying that I would expect that B2B products like Snowflake and other 'deep tech' products require good engineering, otherwise the product just wouldn't work.