Replying to myself as it's too late to edit. A more succinct explanation came to mind while just doing some yard work: We've all heard and understood the wisd

Replying to myself as it's too late to edit. A more succinct explanation came to mind while just doing some yard work: We've all heard and understood the wisdom of "premature optimization is the root of all evil", right? What's being conflated here as perfectionism is a variant of premature optimization. Perhaps we need an idiom like "Premature polishing is the root of all unfinished games".