> makes me wonder if there are similar "almost done, could be great, but never quite finished" pieces of software. Absolutely there are. I worked on one projec

> makes me wonder if there are similar "almost done, could be great, but never quite finished" pieces of software. Absolutely there are. I worked on one project with ~30 other devs on one project for 3 years, then a change of management high up somewhere brings in a new guy who wants to make an impact, so he kills it and has the whole thing rewritten on a newer platform.