I'm far from being a developer perfectionist, I wouldn't spend 10 years in this company if I was one, trust me (btw we fired a lot of them along the way).

The point of the article is not to convince anyone to slow down as much as possible and work on bugs/etc. It's just that at some point (3, 4 years in?) there comes a time that you just have to put more effort into the things I described, otherwise it gets complicated fast.

Obviously there is a tradeoff, my opinion is that this tradeoff wasn't correctly balanced (especially further down).