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That's usually because the high level gameplay code needs to be incrementally tweaked over months or years based on very subjective feedback like "this doesn't

That's usually because the high level gameplay code needs to be incrementally tweaked over months or years based on very subjective feedback like "this doesn't feel quite right, can you maybe try...". You can start with a great plan, but no plan survives gameplay- and balance-tweaking for very long. Ideally the lower layers are much more structured though, usually those need to be maintained over a longer time and across games.

dietrichepp 3y ago
You can see places in the Q2 code where it has been incrementally tweaked a bunch. The player movement code got a bunch of changes, and you can see blocks of it that are commented out or have #if 0. There are some comments explaining the thought process, but it’s not very clear.