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> poorly defined, highly volatile, potentially short lifespan

This. This is the reality of software development, especially in a startup. You have to quickly adapt your code to the <not well defined> client's needs and to the business constraints, because if there is no cash, the company wouldn't exist anyway.

You can't do that with "perfect" code.

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> You have to quickly adapt your code ... You can't do that with "perfect" code

Actually, I would say that the exact opposite is true: only perfect code is perfectly adaptable. The times I want to yell at my past self are the times that he wrote something quick and dirty that I now have to rewrite because the requirements have changed.