Worse is Better Philosophy

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Something that just works, is bare bones, is better for wide adoption than a polished product that takes long to get to market. Aka the New Jersey Approach, lol, i'm from New Jersey.

The property that makes for Worse-is-Better being attractive is modularity - easy improvability and adaptability. This is also known as Growable-is-Better.

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index.php/Growable-is-better.html

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/2010-11/WorseIsBetter/index.php/Worse-is-better.html