I agree, but a lot of it comes down to other peoples perception of you. Sometimes it is worth doing those dumb esoteric challenges that provide no business valu

I agree, but a lot of it comes down to other peoples perception of you. Sometimes it is worth doing those dumb esoteric challenges that provide no business value whatsoever. Example: The CTO really wants the table on the careers page to render the text color coded by the age of the job posting. Will it be easy to do this? No, our table text color is hard coded so we will have to rewrite the table module from scratch. Is this of any value to any paying customer or job applicant? No, no one cares about the text color. But, after you have advised management it may not be valuable to your users and it will be very time consuming, you better hop on board the table text color train 100% and ship those stupid table colors.