[chii]

Good enough and simple enough, and get it out early.

All of the projects that succeed through the worse is better principle is because they were easier to implement, and thus, easier to ship first and early. They have to be just good enough for their intended purpose, with relatively few competing alternatives at the time.

Only after those projects became more popular, do the warts show up, and then newer projects/iterations thought up as a replacement - which, of course don't succeed because the marginal improvements don't cover the costs of replacement.