I feel like one success story doesn't necessarily make it good advice for everyone else.
Maybe in the world where your customer base is flexible (students), and where your product "doesn't really matter", then hey, why not break it from time to time. The penalty for failure, is well, zero.
In a different context though small errors can result in very large penalties, even extinction. In which case this strategy will (and certainly has many times) failed.
Advice without context is dangerous. Before adopting any advice (especially "how we did it" stories from survivors) it's worth really understanding the external factors that aided in that success.
Maybe in the world where your customer base is flexible (students), and where your product "doesn't really matter", then hey, why not break it from time to time. The penalty for failure, is well, zero.
In a different context though small errors can result in very large penalties, even extinction. In which case this strategy will (and certainly has many times) failed.
Advice without context is dangerous. Before adopting any advice (especially "how we did it" stories from survivors) it's worth really understanding the external factors that aided in that success.