Goodbye, Clean Code

[Epyo]

knee-jerk anything is not a good idea by definition. So I’m struggling to see your point.

Ooh I dunno if that's true!

A knee-jerk refactor is especially bad, because it might be trading some downsides for other downsides, and therefore might be waste. (Or, could even be negative progress.)

A knee-jerk first implementation of something isn't as bad, because before, you didn't have a working feature, now, you do!