What a great essay. Extremely long and it did lose my attention a bit but it conveys something important. The impact is not measured in leaps and bounds but in

What a great essay. Extremely long and it did lose my attention a bit but it conveys something important. The impact is not measured in leaps and bounds but in what you lose along the way. Working on the code for me meant I had an intuition of why things were done a certain way, track down those odd behaviours by knowing where to look. Analysing bugs and thinking of features doesn't take into consideration the strength of the architecture anymore, unless you keep that effort of understanding up.