[portal_narlish]

I refer to this as the "spaghetti law of attraction". The burden of refactoring things gets higher and higher and no one wants to touch it. So they just add another try-catch block and do some side effect and get the PR merged.

[time-traveler]

It is also a question of management, it is easier to motivate adding new features instead of keeping thing nice and tidy. Especially as finding good abstractions are very hard and time-consuming.