And/or an organization that has the faith and politics that allow to wait till smooth starts paying back and becomes fast. Frequently you also have everyone benefiting from smoothness but not everyone contributing to it which results in the folks who pump out tickets as fast as possible looking like they are just strictly better. Easy to adapt to and game as an IC, but I find it frustrating as a manager.

> This only works if you are in charge of the timelines or have a manager who values quality over quantity

And also if you're not in a bad starting position: you could have a system that is very hard and slow to work with, meaning that you can't feasibly introduce much easy to use functionality, especially if the domain logic is tightly coupled.