Can't say that I've abandoned that many projects due to distraction of starting from scratch... I just haven't started that many, but I mostly agree with this l

Can't say that I've abandoned that many projects due to distraction of starting from scratch... I just haven't started that many, but I mostly agree with this line of thinking. I think programmers (myself included) tend to get distracted by optimizations and minutia which actually have no bearing on project/product success. That makes the boring, routine part much longer than it needs to be.