My experience has been that the powers that be generally won't give developers time to rewrite to meet changes in the requirements. Personally as I see it: ite

My experience has been that the powers that be generally won't give developers time to rewrite to meet changes in the requirements. Personally as I see it: iterative development with time to rewrite > cathedral development > "iterative" development without time to rewrite I think that most teams actually do "iterative development without time to rewrite" so cathedrals of complexity would actually be an improvement.