> Craftmanship is for academics and people that don't work in the real world because it needs time, lots of it.

I think the biggest benefit of craftsmanship is actually flexibility. Well-crafted code has a property of malleability without becoming a tangled mess. Its parts tend to be more orthogonal and less coupled.

I don't think that it's a binary choice of craftsmanship or shipping code; this may be true if you're a younger engineer. Mid- and senior- engineers can build well-crafted systems with less of a tradeoff for speed afforded by having more experience building and knowing where to add that malleability and where it would be wasted.