"I have taste and you don't" is a great way to never get anybody to agree with you. So is "your solution is not the way I would have done it."
The only way to get off doing 12-hour shifts at the feature factory is to defy its logic.
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Taste is a dead end; what you should have is a point of view
By justifying decisions on the basis of taste, designers are throwing away the influence they need for preventing low-value feature bloat