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@inthehands That's an almost impressive perversion of a perfectly good argument.

Somebody had interviewed the CEO of a software development company (can't remember who or which; doesn't matter). In a time when "you must fix all bugs before release" was popular dogma, they asked whether he was comfortable with shipping releases that he knew contained bugs.

"Absolutely!" he said with a big smile.

Then he explained. Their customers got more value from having the software as it was, even with those bugs, than from not having it. Perfect, good, enemy, value of "now" vs "eventually, when it's perfect" and all that.

I think he was also enthusiastic about fixing those bugs to improve the quality over time. I'm taking that approach, in any case.