[tacotuesday]

Interesting article, but I don't think this is entirely restricted to engineers.

I've seen plenty of management decisions where, instead of making a choice which will apply to all users, management decides to make it yet another check box buried in the preferences section of an application.

It takes a week or two before Mgt settles on whether it should be on or off. If 90% of users want off, then off it is.

Then two months down the road, the 10% that like it on now want to extend the feature a bit more. And with that, the process repeats, another check box is nested.

Before long, you're left with a management designed, byzantine architecture of wheels and knobs and checkboxes everywhere.

It's not just us engineers doing it :)