I'd also add that a lot of the inefficiencies are a direct result of client demands. Not in the sense that they want it to be slower, but they refuse to budge o

I'd also add that a lot of the inefficiencies are a direct result of client demands. Not in the sense that they want it to be slower, but they refuse to budge on the requirements and do not want to adapt their business process. We bog down our validation code with dozens and dozens of edge case processing rules that could be bypassed if the client simply changed their own processes, but alas, no.