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I always think this is very much the approach MVP (Minimum Viable Product) takes. I've seen this taken to the extreme in a company where the IT department where applying MVP to their internal business users creating absolute havock. Eventually Business Analysts were brought in to 'force' a more beneficial approach to delivering good solutions as well as get the business talking to IT in terms that each could understand.

There is a point within a company, where you have to switch from Minimum Viable Product to Minimum Valuable Product and try and live by the motto "Write your way out of a job".

Not sure where I am going with this, but I think the OP is right. We overthink things sometimes.