I’ve certainly seen it different because I make sure it happens.
What you’re talking about is the human equivalent of tech debt. Occasionally you need to take out a loan, but you had better have a good reason why and a plan to pay it back.
If there’s crunch to get something live and then people scale back, that’s one thing. But if the product/company/whatever is only successful if people work in an unsustainable way then it’s not actually successful. Better to understand that before everyone is burned out and miserable.
What you’re talking about is the human equivalent of tech debt. Occasionally you need to take out a loan, but you had better have a good reason why and a plan to pay it back.
If there’s crunch to get something live and then people scale back, that’s one thing. But if the product/company/whatever is only successful if people work in an unsustainable way then it’s not actually successful. Better to understand that before everyone is burned out and miserable.