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You've basically elevated these items to the top of the list, above all other attributes, and declared them more important to all customers.

No I didn't. I'm just saying that these things are also important to customers. Churning out tons of broken features on top of a constantly crashing/unavailable system is not a winning formula for success in many markets.

It might work to some degree for free consumer-facing apps (like Twitter), but for many other sectors reliability and data integrity are very important factors (like any B2B product).

Customers need things like ...

Definition of need:

a situation in which someone or something must do or have something

Saying "these things are also important" and that it depends on the type (twitter vs b2b) of product is a lesser statement than your original statement. If you want to tone down what you originally said that's fine.

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