Comment by planetmcd

I've not seen this 'common' knowledge in the field enough to call it common.

While there can be a strategic value to just getting something working, the tough part is that many times that is used as a crutch to do no more thinking or design, quite possibly because they've never been called to. And refactors happen less than they ought to. The point is to be strategic about when to turn the quality/speed dial towards speed and know you are consciously taking on tech debt.