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On the other hand, in software-related matters, I have the increasing feeling that kludges and temporary decisions made in the "First do it" stage, tend to get carried on to infinity through the other phases.

Thus, lots of stuff that falls in the "Important, but Not Urgent" category of the Eisenhower Matrix end up never getting its proper development time. One could argue "well, then maybe they weren't actually that important, were they?" but I'd reply that usually the criteria to define something as important is measured with growth potential, and that's the wrong bar to use.

That's how we end up with "we'll build it in Electron for the time being and later will rebuild in proper native apps if the idea works" ends up being still Electron 10 years later. Or how "we'll make our own controls and later worry about accessibility" turns out never worrying about it.

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