I have never seen any programming project back-peddling to its previous design in recognition that it was better than the current one. Even though, unlike in m

I have never seen any programming project back-peddling to its previous design in recognition that it was better than the current one. Even though, unlike in many professions, we have the means (via source-control). The hope is that as time passes, the generation that had first-hand experience with the old thing will die off and the new generation will re-discover things unjustly forgotten.