This is top-down design presented as slapdashery-as-a-virtue. Except you can also do top down design without the slapdashery, and it will usually be equally fa

This is top-down design presented as slapdashery-as-a-virtue. Except you can also do top down design without the slapdashery, and it will usually be equally fast and a lot better. I agree about top-down design vs "progress-bar" design though (I do like this term!). But of course, there's nothing stopping you from creating slapdash progress-bar code either. Which is the worst possible outcome, obviously.