This naturally happens when engineering orgs are feature rather than result or quality oriented. As another random example, Apple shipped autolayout in iOS 7 wi

This naturally happens when engineering orgs are feature rather than result or quality oriented. As another random example, Apple shipped autolayout in iOS 7 with greater than quadratic performance as the number of constraints increased. It wasn't until iOS 12 that they made it simply linear, a well known optimization of linear algebra systems (autolayout is largely a simultaneous equation solver).