> The first kind of quality is the only kind that matters in the end.
How easy it is to maintain and extend does absolutely matter, in a world where software is constantly growing and evolving and never "finished"
How easy it is to maintain and extend does absolutely matter, in a world where software is constantly growing and evolving and never "finished"
Just an observation though:
There seems to be a world in software where "it works" well enough to grow a large user base to achieve a a large valuation and then dip out is also a viable option.
Growing/evolving the code does not matter because the product no longer matters after the founders have made a large sum of money.
You're harming:
* your customers who trusted you
* the people that purchased your product
There’s nothing wrong with iterating fast or building MVPs. But when teams knowingly pass off a brittle mess to others, they’ve stopped building products and started selling lies.
I was not trying to imply that it was not. Just observing that when money is on the table there appears little incentive in some cases to build a good product.
Or to follow good engineering practices because the founders & investors already made money without it.