[ARandomerDude]

This. A thousand times this. I work on a household-name product with millions of users. It works pretty well most of the time but also has frequent outages, bugs, and usability issues, during which times the 1-star reviews pile up.

By far our biggest problems are:

1. Leadership at the time just wanted an MVP, and they wanted it yesterday.

2. Leadership now believes "You don't need more people, and rewrites are a waste of time. Look what we've built with a skeleton crew and tight timelines!"

Fellow engineers, beware: if you train your leaders to believe your team can deliver with no budget and unrealistic timelines, they will continue to give you no budget and unrealistic timelines.

[gabereiser]

Those are indeed leadership failings. After-market processes should be put in place to ensure quality. If that means slowing the cadence of releases, fine, so long as the value delivered is there. If you have millions of users, it sounds like it is. In which case my point about just getting it out the door isn’t applicable.