> And this can be scary: imagine you discover a wrong design decision you made 10 years ago costed millions to your company… would you happily expose it? Yes.

> And this can be scary: imagine you discover a wrong design decision you made 10 years ago costed millions to your company… would you happily expose it? Yes. Obviously. That's my job. Are you saying you wouldn't? The whole article has this really weird assumption that people will naturally be ashamed that work they did years ago with a more limited budget/team/understanding of the problem is now showing cracks. But that is the natural state of software development. It happens to everyone, everywhere. A developer who can't accept that has a serious ego problem, and a manager who can't accept that should not be managing developers. Either way, the problem is the individual, not the design pattern.