Maybe it has something to do with the nature of the business of game programming, where most projects are only developed and maintained for a year or two and th

Maybe it has something to do with the nature of the business of game programming, where most projects are only developed and maintained for a year or two and then the team has to move on to the next big project in order to pay the bills. In a context like that, it can be easier to make the case that monkey patching might be a better use of resources than refactoring. Generalizing this to all of software development is still a bit presumptuous though.