"I'll make sure my work is just passable" is a very strange interpretation of the original statement, which was "if more time makes your work more professional,

"I'll make sure my work is just passable" is a very strange interpretation of the original statement, which was "if more time makes your work more professional, then take more time." You are not being paid enough to rack up tech debt during 80 hour weeks constantly moving from one sales-driven project to the next, because that's a stupid way to develop software and it'll burn you out after a year of back-to-back "why isn't XYZ done?"/"why didn't you make XYZ not buggy?" meetings, at which point you'd better have made enough money to retire to the Bahamas.