It is also true that a clunky and inelegant piece of code that does its job is infinitely better than a pristinely written code that solves a slightly wrong pro

It is also true that a clunky and inelegant piece of code that does its job is infinitely better than a pristinely written code that solves a slightly wrong problem. So iterating quickly and being agile is bad for the code quality, but it is probably good for finding exactly what is the right problem to solve.