And actually even more: the Wi Fi installers maybe even thought they were being respectful of the original design by installing unobtrusively. They didn’t feel

And actually even more: the Wi Fi installers maybe even thought they were being respectful of the original design by installing unobtrusively. They didn’t feel like they had the authority to introduce a whole new infrastructure paradigm. They saw the people who went before them as having laid down an inviolable framework rather than a pattern for them to follow. And damn it if that doesn’t describe the problem with so much legacy software development. Maintainers need to realize that they have just as much right to leave their mark on the code as the original authors. You don’t need to be unobtrusive and tiptoe around. It’s often the lack of ambition in software maintenance that dooms the system ultimately to become a legacy burden and ultimately get torn down and replaced.