The owners are both engineers, primarily back end, while I do both front and back end. I suspect they are partially motivated (as other commenters suggested) b

The owners are both engineers, primarily back end, while I do both front and back end. I suspect they are partially motivated (as other commenters suggested) by not changing too much of what they themselves built personally. Partially out of a fear of change, but also partially out of a “if we find ourselves without employees and need to run the whole show on our own again, we can’t have a bunch of code we don’t understand” fear. Which I understand. But fact is, we have customers and internal users who are overworked and have needs. Needs that we aren’t meeting because we never deliver the “right” solution in full, in part because so many parts of the system just seem unofficially “off limits”. I’ve offered many times to start a regular engineering training and sharing session where I can help make others aware of how I’ve been building things and how they can help maintain them, to try to make everyone more comfortable with the front end, but that also has met the same friction as my projects.