The only conclusion I can draw from what you just wrote is that you've encountered easily fixable issues and rather than try to solve them in a sensible manner

The only conclusion I can draw from what you just wrote is that you've encountered easily fixable issues and rather than try to solve them in a sensible manner you've backed yourself into a corner of solving them in a complicated and difficult way. In my experience in the software industry it's not uncommon for teams of people to persuade themselves that there's no better solution when there does in fact exist a better solution and then to spend an inordinate amount of resources solving a non-problem.