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I think this feeling goes away over time as you gain more experience and see how others are doing in the industry. There's a never ending tension between not breaking prod (having bugs) and shipping. In most places, you can't stop shipping, so you have to find how much stability you're willing to sacrifice for your feature work. Then you need to accept the casualties as being part of the battle you're waging. Of course it's better if there's no casualties, and it's better if you minimize the risk of casualties, but if you stick you're nose out there, you need to accept the risk and live with it.

With experience, you can learn ways to minimize the risk you take when you ship, by writing code in better ways, by organizing things with more backstops, handrails, fail-safe patterns, but it's always at the detriment of shipping. But the better you get, the lesser the impact of the safety tax will be.