[pyrale]

> where time-to-market and profitability always trump code quality

What actually happens is more like :

"deliver as fast a possible, no matter what"

...

"The poc was delivered in a week, why are new features so slow? And can you explain what this refactoring item adds to the bottom line?"

[mejutoco]

That seems like a failure of management.

[pyrale]

Well, if one's management consistently fails in a predictable way that one can adapt to, one should probably adapt to it regardless of whether they believe it's a failure.

[mejutoco]

That is one option, and it is fine. Adapting to people treating a PoC as a full product by making it a more full-featured product is basically stopping doing PoC.