As someone who works in manufacturing, I can't count the number of times I've been told to "just make it work". And, in reality, sometimes that truly is the best option in the immediate term to get a system working so you can make enhancements later. But I think that's the operative phrase: so you can enhance later. The challenge is that once the immediate fire is out, it's easy to simply leave things in a half-baked…
I wonder what is an acceptable "make it work"?
I had an old GM car and looked at it on a lift once and... "hey, what are those?"
shims. It had lots of shims from the factory to make the body straight.
I suspect there are lots of these "fixers" in many products that will work unnoticed, but people might not want to know they exist.