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I personally shrug it off, but I'm one of the newest guys in the team so I don't have a lot of clout to push for changes yet. Everyone else though seems to be c

I personally shrug it off, but I'm one of the newest guys in the team so I don't have a lot of clout to push for changes yet. Everyone else though seems to be caught into some sort of mysticism around the genius guy. Even our architect and our manager have this attitude of "we can't change this; it might look strange and we don't know why it's there, but he said that was how it had to be." It's very upsetting.

iSnow 10y ago
Good for you. I didn't want to pick on you or your colleges so much, I just think your local "genius" has weaknesses like everybody, but in reality your company is at fault. They should not mystify him, they should have made sure he shares knowledge with others and brings other up to speed. And as he is gone, they should make sure the code is refactored to suit the documentation level and code style the remaining devs are used to.