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I’ve seen tons of low quality successful software (concur anyone). Clearly being well built is not a requirement for success.

• ethbr1 2y ago
  I'd split the difference and say the cons that low quality software creates only matter sometimes. E.g. Concur is primarily feature-complete and will only ever need to evolve gradually. So the drawbacks of being brittle, kludged-together, and incapable of making rapid feature changes doesn't really matter. In some other products, that matters a huge deal. So the tl;dr is, as always, optimize for the things that actually matter for your particular situation.