Here's a real example of delivering something now without worrying about being the best engineer I can. I have 2 CSRs, They are swamped with work and we're weeks away from bringing another CSR on board. I find a couple of time consuming tasks that are easy to automate and build those out separately as one-off jobs that work well enough. Instantly it's a solid time gain & stress reducer to CSRs. Are my one-off automation tasks a long term solution? No. Do I care? Not at the moment, and my ego can take a hit for the time being.