I think it was Judd Apatow who said “You have to give yourself permission for the first draft to be shit.”

The hardest part of making anything is getting to the minimal viable product. Editing and refining and upgrading aren’t necessarily easy, but they are typically less daunting than staring at a blank page that you need to fill.

Problem is the business will often never let you improve it.

So you better not tie your self worth to the quality of the things you produce.

It's not a universal thing.

You can go into some interviews, say you write code just good enough to ship, and that will be a red flag to them.

You have to choose your tribe on this issue and be comfortable with the other tribe hating your style.

Surely, I have given up to the pretty tribe on a couple of pull requests, as I have better things to do with my time, and it is easier to make their wishes come true than endless arguing.