Couple that with a situation where you do have a solution, and you manage to implement it, and then later on somebody takes over your codebase, rips the solutio

Couple that with a situation where you do have a solution, and you manage to implement it, and then later on somebody takes over your codebase, rips the solution out because they can't be bothered to integrate their new idea into your architecture, and all the bugs that you thought you'd solved "once and for all" come right back.