When I joined it was about 15 employees. When I left it was about 150 (but still under 30 devs) so this wouldn't really be reasonable. But part of the problem

When I joined it was about 15 employees. When I left it was about 150 (but still under 30 devs) so this wouldn't really be reasonable. But part of the problem was they did know simple enough regex for what they wanted to accomplish. Having a few simple regex and some application logic around them would have done it. But they'd often think "that sounds messy, squeaky-clean can probably solve this in a single regex." And while I probably could, it would not be good code nor would it be more performant.