> I’d be willing to bet there’s more to the story in nearly every case. The non-standard way is often a deliberate choice to attempt to optimize for output, giv

> I’d be willing to bet there’s more to the story in nearly every case. The non-standard way is often a deliberate choice to attempt to optimize for output, given unpredictable and unrealistic deadlines. Yeah... I hit this... A lot, in the past couple of years. "just get it out, we'll polish it later". It was... primarily me in dev (I was doing about 90% of the app code), and there was never enough time to catch up. I've moved on, and there's now ~3 people, and they've been given more time and ability to reset schedules and... now it's all "why was this done so poorly? this is garbage", etc. I've pointed to my many messages asking for things to slow down, schedule more time, etc. Always a "later", and now that the personnel have changed, and there's "more time" for everything... most of what I did looks bad. I was the only one writing tests - left them with 500+ tests, some documentation and action/decision log docs - but no one looks at it. "This is bad". Well... sure, but it's tested, and you now can refactor, vs rebuilding from scratch (which... I'd lobbied to do 2 years earlier, before building on top of the very shaky MVP).