Reminds me of "tech debt as a lack of understanding" https://daverupert.com/2020/11/technical-debt-as-a-lack-of-understanding/ https://daverupert.com/2020/11/t

Reminds me of "tech debt as a lack of understanding" https://daverupert.com/2020/11/technical-debt-as-a-lack-of-understanding/ https://daverupert.com/2020/11/technical-debt-as-a-lack-of-u... > If there’s been enough organizational turnover or enough feature creep in a product, then maybe doing a rewrite is the best option so your team has a collective understanding of the code. You can’t expect people to be productive in something that was a culmination of [complicated "here be dragons" code] made by people who no longer work there. At that point your technical debt balloon has popped, you are in possession of a toxic asset.