Hi, nice article of yours, thanks.

I think you could even go further: doing things The Right Way is not slower than doing them "dirty", it is actually faster.

Those "quick and dirty" guys always throw some "god machine" thing that never worked as an example of The Right Thing. It is wrong. The Right Thing is just the correct amount of forethought and architecture for the problem at hands. The Right Thing leads to no overengineering, because overengineering is wrong. Doing The Right Thing leads to things like Vim, Git, Python, Postgres, coreutils, etc. Note that none of these is perfect. But they have 1) sane basic assumptions 2) some level of internal coherency that allow them to be reliable tools one can build upon.