The statement was for 2009 when we had ~5 employees. I'm not sure what the timeline would look like if we had chosen the path you suggested. It does seem likely

The statement was for 2009 when we had ~5 employees. I'm not sure what the timeline would look like if we had chosen the path you suggested. It does seem likely that we could have avoided an incremental rewrite. As mentioned in the post, a large reason for the rewrite was the tight coupling of UI and data fetching code.