As well as your average customer. Your average customer couldn't care less about the maintainability, testability, or cleanliness of the code. They care about g

As well as your average customer. Your average customer couldn't care less about the maintainability, testability, or cleanliness of the code. They care about getting the features they asked for within the time frame they were promised for the price they were quoted. You could argue that those things all play into that and are things they should care about and I wouldn't disagree. But the reality is they don't. If you tell them you have to push it back because you need to clean up the code and make it look pretty you're going to have an unhappy customer.