> There are lots of systems that are more or less right in version 1. While true, in my experience this usually happened when at least one - if not all three -

> There are lots of systems that are more or less right in version 1. While true, in my experience this usually happened when at least one - if not all three - of these conditions were true: 1. The problem domain is relatively static, unmoving, and self contained 2. The systems in question is relatively small 3. The developers in question have written substantially similar systems before, or ground locally, or used version 0.x version numbers first (in any of these cases, is it really "version 1" per se?) ...game development is admittedly weak in all 3 categories, and high on time pressure. Oh sure, there's some solid code that will probably last decades in many codebases, but even the best programmers will occasionally make a system that - while good in isolation - needs reworking when combined with other systems - to say nothing of the content and rendering pipelines that vary wildly by decade.