> Why is this a problem? Programs are a means to an end. The 264 Jira statuses are messy and could be done away with, but would a clean solution actually change

> Why is this a problem? Programs are a means to an end. The 264 Jira statuses are messy and could be done away with, but would a clean solution actually change anything for the better? In a significant, "it was worth spending the money on a real developer" way? "Let's not waste money on a programmer so instead everyone in the company wastes millions of man-hours every month slowly filling things the wrong way!" There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough. - The Art of Unix Programming