I'm skeptical "get to market as fast as possible, damn the consequences" is as relevant today as it was 10 years ago.

People have to be careful not to miss their window trying to be perfect, but first and broken isn't a clear winner over second and working anymore.

I agree with you. There is an advantage to being first on market, but the "damn the consequences" part is very much VC-fueled. Start-ups going to market (and failing) as fast as possible is very much in the financial interest of the VC, but generally good neither the startup nor its employees nor the ecosystem.

I've lived through several semi-disastrous VC-pushed early product launches, and have seen some being sufficiently bad to entirely destroy a product, despite it being extremely useful.