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by yakshaving_jgt 2668 days ago
I know this opinion is extremely controversial, but sometimes — usually as a result of inexperience — people do put out bad work.

Sometimes it's cheaper for a business to rewrite something (the size of that something is highly context sensitive), than it is to work around a poor approach to a problem.

I know we love to believe in the industry that everyone is a genius and any self-doubt is imposter syndrome, but as Camille Fournier put it: "This is Hallmark card pablum".[0]

[0]: https://twitter.com/skamille/status/1004735128726376448