[pragmatic]

Maybe, but who's going to build that system when 110% of engineering is building customer features.

Much more likely that a ) engineering doesn't want to touch it ( for obvious reasons so b) sales/sales support maintains this in Excel or worse...

[cameronbrown]

Nothing wrong with maintaining in Excel as long as a computer system can serve that data. At that point it's just a fancy lookup table.

Engineering != programming. People forget that choosing not to code is also an option.

[dannyw]

One of the companies I worked for got acquired. The CTO of the bigger company decided to personally lead a large rewrite, including:

• replacing our Wordpress blog with something custom written, including building our own database migrator (you could manually data entry our few blog posts by copy and paste)

• Replace our Google Sheets based asset tracking with an overengineered backend. The frontend was never built due to a lack of FE and design resources and everyone continued to use Google Sheets.

• choose to delete some old sections of our app that still used jQuery, angering vocal customers.