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The article is talking about integrating a payment gateway, so I don't think this specific risk is valid but the overall point is right - yes, there is a trade off between speed to market and how many workarounds will be required.

The truth is that sometimes speed to market is more important than quality, and visa-versa. Handling sensitive credit card data? Sure quality and security are important of course. Implementing a payment gateway to bootstrap a company where that is 1 of 100 tasks before go-live? Hack away and go as fast as possible, and worry about improving it later!