The joy of Greenfield is short lived. At some point, it becomes too costly to fully refactor and you are stuck with what you chose and edging closer and closer

The joy of Greenfield is short lived. At some point, it becomes too costly to fully refactor and you are stuck with what you chose and edging closer and closer to legacy dev. Some projects though just keep on trucking along and doing the next part with the newest shiny thing. You end up with five ways to access data, three ways to send emails and fifteen different methods of report generation. Frankenstein architecture! This architecture also emerges when you have leaders that don't make decisions and peeps debating all day on slack and then doing their own thing anyway because they didn't really want to offend anyone and everyone's ideas are great.