At my first programmer job, a large majority of the code was written by a revolving door of interns allowed to push to main with no oversight. Much of the codeb

At my first programmer job, a large majority of the code was written by a revolving door of interns allowed to push to main with no oversight. Much of the codebase was unknown and irreplaceable, which meant it slowly degraded and crumbled over the years. Even way back then, everyone knew the entire project was beyond salvage and needed to be rewritten from scratch. Well they kept limping along with that mess for another ten years while the industry sprinted ahead. The finally released a new product recently, but I don't think anyone cares because everyone else did it better five years ago