Comment by lr4444lr

Hard disagree. I wish the world worked that way, but it doesn't. So much happens in the time between the product inception and delivery. Initial proposal of value, prototypes, customer feedback and requests, known performance issues to work around, making hooks for non-devs to execute important overrides... the list goes on, and contracts have dates that have to be met. Stuff can't be rewritten to address every turn. This is why Agile (however abused it is) largely beat Waterfall. Software should serve people and yield to their needs. Not the other way around.