[karmakaze]

In my view, the listed items are one step away from tech debt. They may be the pressures that lead to tech debt, but it's the devs that wrote and shipped the tech debt. I personally have maintained the quality bar of projects so that they ship later than originally scheduled. I may not be popular at the time, but eventually people start to notice that projects that I tech lead do complete (eventually) and run well after they go live with much less follow-on maintenance and support. Performance being built into v1 is one of those things. I'm not talking about an MVP for a startup, but extensions to an already high scale platform.