This is true. Also equivalent to "Chalta hain" is "Jugaad". We really need to stop doing this. These short cuts/hacks are okay for when you don't have the means/resources available. Not when you have abundance. Doesn't make any sense whatsoever!
Even though this mindset is incongruous and inefficient for my present circumstances -- and I'm aware of it -- overcoming childhood programming about it is difficult.
Old habits die hard, I guess.