> if all the know-how and leadership has vanished already. The final nail in the coffin after this happening is a software rewrite by the bad quality hired bec

> if all the know-how and leadership has vanished already. The final nail in the coffin after this happening is a software rewrite by the bad quality hired because A) maintaining and extending software is hard 2) it's even harder without any original engineers around to guide designs 3) it's easy to blame people who aren't there for your issues so "the existing software sucks". I've seen this happen a few times.