Yeah, I actually don’t disagree with you. I’m speaking from my experience of being told that we don’t even want to modularize the code. It’s just slap the keyboard and make it work literally as fast as possible. The craft is anticipation of user requests, and not building it out in the moment, but knowing how to build it so it’s a smooth transition to the next feature. When you lose the ability to think (what I equate to focus time) before doing, you end up with unhappy developers, users, and managers. Every time I have tried to advocate for thinking first vs. doing first in my circles, I’ve met strong resistance akin to the perfectionistic claims. Even unit tests are seen as developers simply wasting time to make a product perfect despite said product already having hundreds of users and processing millions of dollars daily.
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