Depends on how you look at it. It’s the mindset. The way you worded it sounds like you default to writing poor code and then have to reach a certain bar before

Depends on how you look at it. It’s the mindset. The way you worded it sounds like you default to writing poor code and then have to reach a certain bar before it requires optimization. Can’t you write closer to optimal code to begin with? With experience can’t you start with learnings of the past? A lot of things are easy and convenient to do now but people like you just parrot about not needing to optimize so as to not do it at all. Maybe instead of thinking if it’s expensive or cheap think about actually wanting to do something decent? Or is everything fake and just a transaction?