Most programmers (you included) will tend to build things not because they are the correct solution for the problems at hand, but because they are interesting a

Most programmers (you included) will tend to build things not because they are the correct solution for the problems at hand, but because they are interesting and just happen to solve at least some aspect of the problem. When this happens repeatedly over time in an organization you wind up with a large, complex codebase that tends to solve problems in pieces and at scales other than the correct level (i.e. as the user experiences it). Usually, the best approach to solving the largest portion of the problem at hand does not involve writing code, and if it does, it won't be code you are interested in. Such is life as a programmer.