> When talking about quality, "good enough" is always good enough.
Humans are poor estimators of "good enough", due to a number of biases (optimism bias / planning fallacy, Dunning-Kreuger effect, hyperbolic discounting etc).
This is partly why your reference industry, building construction, is so thoroughly covered by regulation and caselaw. Apartments would be much more frequently half-arsed if there weren't unpalatable legal and financial consequences for doing so.
Humans are poor estimators of "good enough", due to a number of biases (optimism bias / planning fallacy, Dunning-Kreuger effect, hyperbolic discounting etc).
This is partly why your reference industry, building construction, is so thoroughly covered by regulation and caselaw. Apartments would be much more frequently half-arsed if there weren't unpalatable legal and financial consequences for doing so.