Which is why I explicitly went out of my way to modify the saying to ‘this’, sacrificing catchiness so it was clear to readers that I was not asserting “If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well” as a general claim. Without success, it would seem.
It’s a catchy saying. It may or may not be a good heuristic.
It certainly doesn’t hold in every case.
It might have in this case.
Which is why I explicitly went out of my way to modify the saying to ‘this’, sacrificing catchiness so it was clear to readers that I was not asserting “If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well” as a general claim. Without success, it would seem.