I think your post already shows many of those signs; it's difficult to work in, the people working on it are over complicating the infrastructure/setup, feature

I think your post already shows many of those signs; it's difficult to work in, the people working on it are over complicating the infrastructure/setup, features are being scrapped just to get it out the door, no one has any interest in actually fixing or maintaining existing work and just wants to get to the greenfield parts of the project... I'm no expert, but I suspect this all sounds like a system that's fallen victim to the Second System Effect: https://wiki.c2.com/?SecondSystemEffect https://wiki.c2.com/?SecondSystemEffect And is blundering through many of the same mistakes as the Netscape rewrite mentioned in that Joel on Software post.