Of course. If we lived in a world where good, productive, experienced developers were cheap and plentiful, we could do things very differently. As it is, it can

Of course. If we lived in a world where good, productive, experienced developers were cheap and plentiful, we could do things very differently. As it is, it can be more efficient to pay cheap developers to continually patch (or even rebuild) big balls of mud than pay expensive developers to build it properly in the first place. And I'm not going to complain, because I benefit from the current system.