> "After awhile, nobody wanted to hear about refactoring, they just wanted it to work, and we began the long death march of playing whack-a-mole with technical

> "After awhile, nobody wanted to hear about refactoring, they just wanted it to work, and we began the long death march of playing whack-a-mole with technical debt..." This is exactly why I don't work on web stuff anymore, front- or back-end. Working on products means that, for good or for ill, one _has_ to care about keeping technical debt down to a manageable level or the product collapses.