I don’t care if you can justify it in an academic sense; your company’s boardroom is going to say: - Savings $400K - Direct expenditures $100K - Mistake expe

I don’t care if you can justify it in an academic sense; your company’s boardroom is going to say: - Savings $400K - Direct expenditures $100K - Mistake expenditures $700K - Net loss $400K; immediate loss $800K And that’s it. You’re fired, replaced with someone who is better at not fixing things that ain’t broken; who wouldn’t have made this mistake in the first place. And heaven help you if your code is deployed before the Nintendo Switch 2 launch (or another major launch) when you made this mistake; or if you just ruined another company’s launch and your company’s contract with them to support it. Pointing to a Wikipedia article, musing about how risk analysis should be done, isn’t going to save your skin.