Well, it does bring up the question as to how you'd come to this conclusion, as you've not seen the end result, but let's just write that off to well-intended concern.
As someone who's in the business of creating enterprise software where stuff like budgets and schedules have real and painful consequences, I'm quite aware of the
good is good enough adage, and if that wasn't the case, the endless stream of "is it done yet?"s for LomL is more than enough to keep anyone focused on the need to keep things moving, I can tell you.
So trust me if I say it was time that needed spending.