[ukj]

Perhaps, but you can't determine whether a system is over or under-engineered a priori. Certainly not when you are racing a clock.

These kind of assertions are always after the fact. And in hind-sight I think we could've done a tad better.

I might be less-rich, but that's not even close to being broke. And the people I hire to clean up my technical debt would hate working here less.