> The tl;dr on trade-offs is that everyone cuts corners, in every project. Immature engineers discover them in hindsight, disgusted. Mature engineers spell them out at the onset of a project, accept them and recognize them as part of good engineering.

And if you are that "mature" engineer, you need to remember and realize that many relatively junior engineers and non-engineer stakeholders won't always understand why you're saying X, Y, and Z.

So you'll have to figure out how to get sufficient shared understanding, or at least a lot of blind trust in your judgment.