It doesn’t need to be a lie. You could be seeing that the proposed solution is way better than everything else out there including the existing solution. If onl

It doesn’t need to be a lie. You could be seeing that the proposed solution is way better than everything else out there including the existing solution. If only you could fix “<showstopper>” somehow. We very often have discussions around which solution we take. Often we take the one that we don’t like as much but we know how to make it work. The other solution designs are kept so we can revisit them sometime (or as reference for when somebody says “why don’t you…?”) with fresh minds and then see a new way around the problems we saw before. In my experience the “<showstopper>“ is almost never a law of physics but a shortcoming of a dependency, either it’s implementation or architecture, or just some assumptions that are or have become invalid later on.