[tincholio]

Man, I feel for you. You could be working with an ex-colleague of mine, from all you've said. I inherited _his_ codebase when he was let go, and had to re-write most of it, there was no way to fix that in a reasonable amount of time, if even at all.

But the same type of things on the PR comments, the over-architected, highly-coupled monstrosity that never quite worked.

In the end, we ended up with 6K fewer lines of code (out of a total of 16K or so), and the thing actually works now. Go figure...