I was once forced to change the initialization of all the structs in an old codebase that used them for almost everything. The senior programmer that requested

I was once forced to change the initialization of all the structs in an old codebase that used them for almost everything. The senior programmer that requested the change came from the application world and used the same argument. When I told him that the compiler gave lots of warnings about being compatible with C99 through an extension, he asked me to just disable the warnings and keep on going. We did some testing and pushed the update (we had remote devices connected via GSM) Two weeks later we were pushing a remote downgrade to the previous version because we started to detect anomalous bugs everywhere.