I hear what you're saying; but the implications seem ... net harmful? If you're actively hacking something together with the intent of boosting a valuation, selling your company and GTFOing before your purchasers figure out the bag of unmaintainable garbage you've sold them, that ...

You're harming:

  * your customers who trusted you
  * the people that purchased your product

There’s nothing wrong with iterating fast or building MVPs. But when teams knowingly pass off a brittle mess to others, they’ve stopped building products and started selling lies.

> but the implications seem ... net harmful?

I was not trying to imply that it was not. Just observing that when money is on the table there appears little incentive in some cases to build a good product.

Or to follow good engineering practices because the founders & investors already made money without it.