GP here, I don't disagree with you, engineering is all about trade-offs and you can't engineer things to perfection by taking months to solve easy problems. You need progress, and efficiency so sometimes less important problems need to be fixed with less than ideal hacks etc. I agree with this, but having a culture of "everything is due yesterday", "if it can be done in 6 months, tell customer it'll be ready in 2 months" etc just to create stress and increase productivity lowers the engineering quality exponentially more than it increases productivity and expediency.
