The previous 3 places I have worked it has been a constant battle to get re-factoring done so that system is more maintainable. Some crappy feature was always c

The previous 3 places I have worked it has been a constant battle to get re-factoring done so that system is more maintainable. Some crappy feature was always considered more important (metrics showed a year later that the "important" features hadn't brought in any more revenue).