Reflecting on his pre-2018 career, Ladd identifies rushing as a consistent personal theme (mirroring his inability to keep time on guitar without a metronome). He enjoyed the first 20% of implementation work and declared it done once it was merely working, mistaking in-editor code rearrangement for real refactoring and repeatedly running afoul of design principles. The Test Bench V1 rewrite's stipulations — Useful Objects, zero-compromise principles, immediate correction of every mistake plus all fallout, starting over on loss of control — were designed specifically to break this habit.