Perfect is expensive.
It takes time, resources, and endless refinement. It delays launches. It burns teams. It often never ships.
Good enough is different.
It ships today. It solves the problem now. It learns from real users instead of imagined ones.
For years, tech culture worshipped perfection. The Steve Jobs ideal. The pixel-perfect launch. The flawless experience.
But that's shifting.
Users have shown they'll tolerate imperfection if the core value is there. They'll forgive rough edges if the thing works. They'll choose "available now" over "perfect someday."
And companies are learning.
The ones that iterate in public are outpacing the ones that polish in private. The ones that ship early are gathering feedback the perfectionists never get.
This doesn't mean quality doesn't matter. It means the definition of quality has changed.
Quality isn't flawlessness. It's usefulness, delivered reliably, improved continuously.
Good enough, shipped, wins. Perfect, delayed, loses.
That's the shift worth noticing.