All I'm saying is you could choose a better example, which NASA is full of them.

But lets say I built you a car that already came with an engine and some other important things, just to make it quicker and cheaper to get that car in your hands. Unfortunately, you want me to complete work on the car in five different states and use components from those areas. Guess what, the car is now about $5 million over budget and 5 years behind schedule. Not only that, but we encountered issues during the first test that are going to require more fixes ($$$) and more delays for the second test.

In this situation, you're saying it's great, it ran correctly the first time because it went down the road and back, and budgets and timelines don't matter. I'm saying ehhhh, not really - we're over budget by millions, delayed by years, and there were issues, even though we repurposed stuff that was in a car that actually ran a few years back. It's great we built the car, but the project itself isn't something that I would showcase as my best work.