This is so blatantly incompetent that I can only imagine the situation being a result of corporate dance. While there are many oblivious developers, I highly d

This is so blatantly incompetent that I can only imagine the situation being a result of corporate dance. While there are many oblivious developers, I highly doubt that incompetence was the root cause. I'd point to a lovely mix of a) deadlines; b) slow internal procedures to approve the usage of third-party libraries; and c) requirements being passed to developers without context. It's hell, what corporate environments can push us to do. I'd bet that most of the people who worked in big corps have their own stories about internal procedures making them do things they objectively knew were wrong.