Flexibility Equates to Lower Quality

There are two opposing mindsets: "If it works, it's good" vs. "If it's good, it works;" or "Make it work" vs. "Make it right." I'm talking about the software source code. I've been hearing this almost every day in blog comments: Why do we need all those new OOP principles if our code works just fine without them? What is the point of introducing a new way, which is supposed to be "better," if the existing, traditional, semi-obj...