I find it amusing that someone with your background and experience still pretends to believe that all things always fit into your One True Cookie Cutter.
Each environment, product, customer set, expectation set, and needs are different. Each requires a fresh look at how the approach should be handled.
If your goal is to be the first to market to quickly fill a niche while there's a pocket of money to be made on it, you don't have time for process.
They can always sell the company for a profit later to someone who will hire you to clean up the mess. But they're in it to fill a niche, make a buck, and move on.
I hate that mentality, but that's reality, and I've learned to give it room to be what it is.
There are many parallels we can draw in real life to support your All-Managed-All-The-Time view as well as the Never-Managed-Still-Got-A-Product-Out-The-Door view.
Your view is valid for lots of stuff, I agree. But zero flexibility means nothing particularly new gets done without luck. Yes, that same luck that you drummed out of the picture.
There's a time and a place for every kind of solution. If you truly cannot see that, then I may have to re-evaluate a few of my former assessments.
A perfect half-boat sinks. A crappy full-boat can get you places. It might not be fun to operate. Heck, it might even be unsafe at times. But it's better than that really pretty full-featured if-you-ever-finish-it-gosh-it-will-be-great half boat sitting on the hard.
Flexibility, man. Surely you see some value in it.
Don't you?
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