Comment by stouset

“The alternative is that nothing will ever get released because devs will take forever making it perfect” is a really lame take.

We have literally countless examples of software that devs have released entirely of their own volition when they felt it was ready.

If anything, in my experience, software that’s written a little slower and to a higher standard of quality is faster-releasing in the long (and medium) run. You’d be shocked at how productive your developers are when they aren’t task-switching every thirty minutes to put out fires, or when feature work isn’t constantly burdened by having to upend unrelated parts of the code due to hopelessly interwoven design.