100%. At an old job, I worked with an eng manager who believed software quality and time to market were mutually exclusive. You decide which one is important t

100%. At an old job, I worked with an eng manager who believed software quality and time to market were mutually exclusive. You decide which one is important to you and you go for that one. In his thinking, he then constantly failed to identify options that were both fast to build and good, usually due to significant simplification. He could never find these things because in his mind you couldn't have both. Later on, I worked for Ray for a few years and would always think of this dude whenever I encountered this principle.