I've been a part of teams that were hired to "finish" certain major products, and I definitely agree with your perspective. We usually ended up ripping out muc

I've been a part of teams that were hired to "finish" certain major products, and I definitely agree with your perspective. We usually ended up ripping out much of the original development code because it was too brittle/broken/undocumented to bother continuing forward with. Rewriting from scratch was often faster and had more predictable results.