[IanPBann]

This is very similar to Joel Spolsky's advice that you should never just chuck code out and and start from scratch.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

[littleblah]

Yup. That was my inspiration, and sadly, I have been on the side as well where things started from scratch, and ended up blowing up couple of months later.