That is also the reason that the company is now sometimes spending 100000 dollars on work that should cost 5000. A few years ago, the whole edifice was dangerou

That is also the reason that the company is now sometimes spending 100000 dollars on work that should cost 5000. A few years ago, the whole edifice was dangerously close to becoming literally unmaintainable; collapsing under its own complexity, the interest payments on the technical debt requiring more than 100% of available output. Those deadlines were frequently missed, by the way. Sometimes by months. I think not quite ever by years.