This strikes me as simplistic and bordering on disrespectful of other writers' processes. My first drafts are rough not because I'm lazy and/or have bought into some Evil Myth of the Bad First Draft, but because for me, it takes writing a complete draft to figure out what I'm really writing about. I always wind up making a lot of changes to characters, plot points, story arcs, etc. in my second draft, so for me laboring over my rough draft to make it a thing of beauty is a waste of time, since I don't know yet what parts of the story are staying.
I agree with this. A first draft is going to be bad, whether you think it will be or not, and the comment seems a little disrespectful to the processes of writers.