[mindwok]

I'd guess you're maybe working on more established codebases then? I see this regularly with my clients. I work in sprints and they pay for my time, so they will often deprioritise engineering/robustness work if it's taking up time that could be used some shiny new feature they want.

Also it's rarely "I want new features and I'm happy for them to be buggy or sluggish", it's more "We want to solve this problem and we're not exactly sure what the solution will look like, so lets try stuff and accept it's not going to be perfect"