technology choices tend to stick around a lot longer than you ever imagine :) It amazes me how true this is. I've learned that assertions such as "this is a m

technology choices tend to stick around a lot longer than you ever imagine :) It amazes me how true this is. I've learned that assertions such as "this is a mockup and should be replaced ASAP for reasons X Y Z" tend to get ignored by inheritors of proofs-of-concepts for as long as (or longer than) possible. My coworkers wonder why now I fight tooth-and-nail to (from their perspective) over-engineer things from the start; I know that short-sighted decisions will never be revisited until it's too late.