"Explicitly constraining and mitigating certain categories of complexity was likely to pay off in the medium and long term." 100 million % correct. It boggles

"Explicitly constraining and mitigating certain categories of complexity was likely to pay off in the medium and long term." 100 million % correct. It boggles my mind when I am hired onto projects to help "bring them to prod" only to find out the past several years the coding was primarily done by college grads and relative beginners. Ideally you get to rely on experts for the entirety of a project, but if your budget doesn't allow for it, at minimum I think it's early in the project that you want EXPERTS. You don't bring in experts and expect miracles after all the bad decisions have already been made and committed to.