>The process is fine, but sometimes shit is broken and you need to fix it now and clean up the existing mess later.

when did you ever get to this land of milk and honey called later? whenever you have a jfdi because its broken, the way its coded always stays....

I've never seen a manager sign off on reworking code that does the job, just to make it "more manageable" or "standard" or "less of a bodge"