> This an interesting psychological point to discuss IMO, we get lured to things that feel "fast" but actually aren't.
It's not so much “feels fast but actually aren’t” as “fast onramp that makes downstream maintenance slow”.
That people tend to be bad at balancing downstream costs against current benefits is well known, and that's even outside the context of business situations where the cost is attached to a role that decision-makers may expect to be out of before the cost is realized, and outside of social contexts like speed-of-this-iteration-focussed development methodologies that structurally encourage discounting future costs.
It's not so much “feels fast but actually aren’t” as “fast onramp that makes downstream maintenance slow”.
That people tend to be bad at balancing downstream costs against current benefits is well known, and that's even outside the context of business situations where the cost is attached to a role that decision-makers may expect to be out of before the cost is realized, and outside of social contexts like speed-of-this-iteration-focussed development methodologies that structurally encourage discounting future costs.