You are right on the value of building things fast.
However one thing I have learnt is more coupled the code is with no or poor incomplete abstractions less likely anyone is going to change it.
In the interest of shipping fast I would rather have some abstraction today rather than none, simply because nobody fixes spaghetti code which is already working.
Building new things start slowing down more and mode and you end up taking weeks for what should have been an afternoon's effort .
There are no right answers, however sometimes wrong abstractions can be marginally better than none.
However one thing I have learnt is more coupled the code is with no or poor incomplete abstractions less likely anyone is going to change it.
In the interest of shipping fast I would rather have some abstraction today rather than none, simply because nobody fixes spaghetti code which is already working.
Building new things start slowing down more and mode and you end up taking weeks for what should have been an afternoon's effort .
There are no right answers, however sometimes wrong abstractions can be marginally better than none.