[chandmk]

While I understand that no one could have gotten to a better conclusion I find it a very distasteful commentary.

So Rick knew everything about the project, while everyone is simply making a living off his work all those months/years, saved the management face many times with miracles, probably not paid n*x, stopped attending meetings because no one understood the stuff anyway, and the author has bad opinion of Rick's code, conveniently ignoring context around Rick's choices, gleefully siding with all those managers who have no clue in the first place and fired the worker to have a new start!!!

Maybe Rick should be given a chance to comment on how bad those project savior choices were.

Now we need to wait and see when would they identify next Rick of the current version of the code when that stops cutting the muster for the flood of new requests.