Respect the craft enough to understand what your requested shortcut would remove.

Every shortcut takes something out, and the person who does the work knows what. Asking a builder, a designer or a cook to skip a step often sounds like trimming waste, when the step is what makes the result last, fit or taste right. The saving is real, but so is the thing you are quietly agreeing to lose.

When you push for faster or cheaper, ask what will be different as a result. Let the answer come from the person doing it, and take it seriously rather than as resistance. Then decide with open eyes, because a shortcut chosen knowingly is very different from one bought by accident.