[dustingetz]

> messy code eats up many more man-hours than having it written cleanly the first time

I think it's more accurate to assume that a company/team doesn't have the ability to write it cleanly until proven otherwise, and a manager/developer blame game signals the company's lack of this ability (this says nothing about an individual manager or developer's ability when taken alone or in a different context - due to multiplicative factors, a team is often much better or much worse than the sum of its members)