That the project was supposed to ship in three months is an important part of the author's specific experience. That they gave the project another two months i

That the project was supposed to ship in three months is an important part of the author's specific experience. That they gave the project another two months is another important part of the experience. So the specific project was clearly a failure. They weren't talking about rewriting working code, let alone code that was making money. To me, it looks like it took a lot to violate the never-start-over-prime-directive-for-progress in creative work.