Sorry, 'months' was ill-chosen. FWIW, it's usually measured in hours where I'm currently at, but I've seen projects where people have spent literally weeks doin

Sorry, 'months' was ill-chosen. FWIW, it's usually measured in hours where I'm currently at, but I've seen projects where people have spent literally weeks doing inane refactorings and rewrites, or where that has been the dictated norm ("We must rewrite our user management system, it's busted").