Building what was presumably quite a large system inevitably turned into a sprawling mess that was hard to maintain and develop any further. I'm not trying to

Building what was presumably quite a large system inevitably turned into a sprawling mess that was hard to maintain and develop any further. I'm not trying to be difficult, but for which platform isn't that just as true? I have seen disastrous spawling messes in Java, .NET, PHP, RoR, JavaScript, C++, and on and on. Platforms have a minimal ability to control self-damage, and many of the worst disasters of achieve-nothing projects are built in Java, with all of the best intentions and best practices in the world.