This is spot on. And to go further, where the OP argued that product quality and development time are mutually exclusive; I submit that they are not. In the r

This is spot on. And to go further, where the OP argued that product quality and development time are mutually exclusive; I submit that they are not. In the right hands, good code can be written quickly and efficiently, just as good novels can be written as quickly as bad ones are, or good music can be written as quickly as bad music is.