> Presumably, down the road, you'll either be a defunct company or doing well enough to afford 10 times the manpower to fix things.
Only in startup land which is still a small fraction of our industry.
Most places will never have 10 times the manpower to fix things and are hurting themselves by not doing them properly in the first place.
> Facebook was a spaghetti code mess in the beginning. I'm sure it caused them some growing pains, but moving too slowly early on would have likely been more costly.
Survivor-ship bias, for every facebook how many potentially viable companies never got off the ground because users couldn't tolerate using their steaming pile?