Ehhh... everyone is brilliant in the early stages of a project. Coming up with a fantastic green fields design isn't hard and represents a fraction of a percen

Ehhh... everyone is brilliant in the early stages of a project. Coming up with a fantastic green fields design isn't hard and represents a fraction of a percentage of the overall work. Give me a solid engineer who can deal with all the legacy cruft and still produce a maintainable piece of software.