I agree it's a strong sentiment. But development seems to slow to a crawl at around that time from what I've seen. And then it seems like keeping the app going

I agree it's a strong sentiment. But development seems to slow to a crawl at around that time from what I've seen. And then it seems like keeping the app going needs extremely strong developers around it, which not every company can afford. It's just bad value; you have to pay a lot to continue to develop at a normal pace. I think the fact that we are trying to shove typing onto Ruby with Sorbet and RBS are a sign that maybe it's not the best programming language once you reach critical mass. It's possible the grass is greener and this is what happens to every tech department... but I'm not totally convinced. I always hit a point with Rails apps where I can see the refactorings I'd like to make but I know it's not worth the pain of the inevitable `NoMethodError` at run-time in production. And that's _with_ a giant test suite.