Software companies need to take concepts to products quickly so that they can reach the market faster. However, in this process, sometimes they end up building a monster application, which upon maturity, companies have to spend tons of time and money in scaling.

Let me explain this in detail. In your development efforts, doing it right the first time is always costly and time consuming. A workaround will take less time and will probably save a whole load of money from the budget. The general attitude is that we will fix it as we go along when we have the resources. As the time moves on, the workaround never gets done, more and more of the code starts to depend on the workaround. Not only that, users also depend on the workaround. The amount of fixing that needs to be done now begins to multiply and your core product starts losing its significance. Foresight here really pays in the long-term and makes life easier in the future.