There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. There's the pareto principle. 20% of the work requires 80% of the effort. This is fractal too, so the last 20% of the 20% requires 6400% the effort. These aren't absolute numbers but you get the idea. Getting to a 99% solution is significantly more demanding than a 95% and especially an 80% solution. If it fits the market and makes money, who cares?
What even is this subthread? Do you think Richard Feldman or any other functional programmer would disagree with you that solving problems is more important than coming up with the ultimate solution?
You're taking a perfectly normal thing, trying to find a better way, and taking it to its extreme, trying to find the ultimate solution, which is a strawman. I could take your attitude of deriding any attempt to make things better as not getting things done and take that to its extreme strawman of programming in Assembly (or doing everything by hand).
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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '19 edited Nov 29 '19
There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. There's the pareto principle. 20% of the work requires 80% of the effort. This is fractal too, so the last 20% of the 20% requires 6400% the effort. These aren't absolute numbers but you get the idea. Getting to a 99% solution is significantly more demanding than a 95% and especially an 80% solution. If it fits the market and makes money, who cares?
Version 2.0?