I've seen the same thing happen in other engines as well (Unity and Frostbite). Not with entire projects, but sizeable deliverables. Luckily most times it's exp

I've seen the same thing happen in other engines as well (Unity and Frostbite). Not with entire projects, but sizeable deliverables. Luckily most times it's explicitly been treated as a prototype made by designers before the feature is implemented by the programmers. Sometimes, however, you'll have a manager in the middle of the process object that we obviously already have a working implementation.