Can't really blame him. Unless you been through this sort of mess before it is very easy to see this as a lovely technical challenge where the SW developer is t

Can't really blame him. Unless you been through this sort of mess before it is very easy to see this as a lovely technical challenge where the SW developer is the knight in shining armour that will end up as the hero after he slays the technical dragon. Of course that is the fairy tale and in reality the technical dragon will eat the knight and use his sword as a toothpick.