For many engineers, a solution is the goal - being aesthetic, neat, innovative relative to others is a luxury or waste of time. The “there I fixed it” slide shows are classic examples of this.
And she ignores the fact that in the technology market, kudos and market share go to the first to have a feature or product. People know it is evolving, so as long as it mostly does the intended purpose, it is the first to get adopted - and they expect it to improve on later iterations. If you sit around crafting an elegant, complex product, you’ll lose out to the basic version that comes to market first.
Best example is Bill Gates. He never had the best technology. But that son of a commie lawyer invented the best capitalist marketing system. He not only got to market. He was the market for enough years to make him the richest in the world.