Maintenance is easy if you don't suck at retention. As much as engineers like to build they also really enjoy gardening. The only compelling argument I have he

Maintenance is easy if you don't suck at retention. As much as engineers like to build they also really enjoy gardening. The only compelling argument I have heard for buy over build is "well, our engineers keep leaving". Yeah, because you are terrible at managing them - so no shit they leave. A competently managed technical team has some natural attrition but the rates of turnover I see in a lot of companies that push this ethos is far beyond normal or healthy. All software becomes "legacy" in short order if you are constantly hemorrhaging tribal knowledge and skills.