[somestag]

I wish that were what happens. Then maybe management would learn over time and the industry would smarten up.

Instead what happens is that the old developers built big things on-time so they were "good developers," and then the new developers struggle with the code and so management assumes the new devs are less competent.

[goatlover]

Probably the old developers did so also because being on time meant skimping on technical debt due to management setting unrealistic deadlines.