Maybe not. But if the alternative was spend one tenth of the time to cut the redundant sql queries down a bit and cut latency 50% - leaving a codebase that anyo

Maybe not. But if the alternative was spend one tenth of the time to cut the redundant sql queries down a bit and cut latency 50% - leaving a codebase that anyone on the team could further develop and debug... Then "that guy" might stil be in the wrong...