Yes and no, I'm guessing most of us here at some point have inherited a codebase that wasn't intended to live longer than a few years or serve 1000s users but n

Yes and no, I'm guessing most of us here at some point have inherited a codebase that wasn't intended to live longer than a few years or serve 1000s users but nonetheless has. I'm not saying everything needs to be overengineered to be FAANG scale but don't go too far the otherway either, think of the person who might inherit the codebase.