From https://nshipster.com/uncertainty/ recently: "Working in software, the most annoying part of reaching Senior level is having to say “it depends” all the time. Much more fun getting to say “let’s ship it and iterate” as Staff or “that won’t scale” as a Principal."
IIUC, author is a Staff SWE, so this tracks.
See also "Worse is better" which has been debated a million times by now.