Having been involved in meetings where "stop ship" was the phrase of the day, I'd bet money that the following at least vaguely resembles a real conversation:
Engineer Alice: We should really fix this properly.
Manager: How sure are you that the proper fix won't break something else for $BIG_CUSTOMERS who are responsible for $OBSCENE percent of this product line's revenue?
Engineer Bob: Uh, ten percent on a good day? Do you remember the last time we applied a "simple" hotfix to this function? I almost had to sleep under my desk.
Manager: And we can just prevent it with an extra regex rule in the front end code?
Engineer Alice: ... Yes. irrepressibly existential sigh
Manager: How much QA effort to call this good?
QA Engineer: We can run through a cut-down version of the acceptance test suite in four or five hours.
Manager: And for the proper fix?
QA Engineer: Oh, hell, at least a week of stress testing to really be sure.
Manager: Add the regex rule.
Engineer Alice: We should really fix this properly.
Manager: How sure are you that the proper fix won't break something else for $BIG_CUSTOMERS who are responsible for $OBSCENE percent of this product line's revenue?
Engineer Bob: Uh, ten percent on a good day? Do you remember the last time we applied a "simple" hotfix to this function? I almost had to sleep under my desk.
Manager: And we can just prevent it with an extra regex rule in the front end code?
Engineer Alice: ... Yes. irrepressibly existential sigh
Manager: How much QA effort to call this good?
QA Engineer: We can run through a cut-down version of the acceptance test suite in four or five hours.
Manager: And for the proper fix?
QA Engineer: Oh, hell, at least a week of stress testing to really be sure.
Manager: Add the regex rule.