[rpastuszak]

But it hurts so good.

As opposed to the alternative, which is dealing with technical dept, spaghetti, legacy code, etc...

[amelius]

Testing and technical debt/spaghetti code/legacy code are not mutually exclusive.

[shados]

you're right. But testing bad code is really really hard. So usually tested code is somewhat better overall, just because it's the easiest way to do it.