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> You've got a project manager breathing down your neck, pressure to deliver functionality, you've explained the technical debt issues etc - and you're still told to do it the wrong way.

Do the right thing and quite that toxic work place. You will help natural selection: extreme corner-cutters should go out of business. I knew a guy (programmer) who destroyed a company by simply leaving.

You can only tell a shoe craftsman to create shoes out of cow dung and grass for so long.