The recent Randall comic is quite fitting: https://xkcd.com/2730/ https://xkcd.com/2730/ I rather think, it has to do a lot with momentum. If you think hard a

The recent Randall comic is quite fitting: https://xkcd.com/2730/ https://xkcd.com/2730/ I rather think, it has to do a lot with momentum. If you think hard about every step and every change, you will be so slow, that a competing project that just focus on shipping useful features, will get so much traction, that they overcome their wrong design decisions with more man power and after a while, so many people use it, that they continue to use it, despite its flaws. Otherwise we wouldn't have javascript as the most widespread language for example, with monumental efforts invested in fixing the initial flaws and making it do things, it was never designed for.