This is exactly the analysis that is missing from the article and any facile, absolutist statement decrying “perfectionism”. Productivity is an optimization pro

This is exactly the analysis that is missing from the article and any facile, absolutist statement decrying “perfectionism”. Productivity is an optimization problem. There are tradeoffs which have to be managed. Depending on the context (e.g. prototype phase vs mature, widely used software) you manage those tradeoffs differently.