I worked at a company where they used a time tracking application (most of their revenue was T+M) which was so bad that one of the developers reverse engineered

I worked at a company where they used a time tracking application (most of their revenue was T+M) which was so bad that one of the developers reverse engineered the front end API and built a new front end for it. What you said about impressing the person viewing the reports really rings true in that case.