[ajoseps]

It really does depend on the management and environment of the company as you’ve stated. I might be more cynical about this, but I see it more likely that management would just leave the project at the prototype stage, release it, and move dev resources to other things.

[ianamartin]

This is a definite risk if you haven't planned for it and got buy-in. But it's a risk that's also fine with me: I don't want to support and develop shitty prototypes that I've whipped up and know to be awful from a maintenance perspective. So if my garbage gets sidelined and I go work on something else, that's also a win and also not my problem anymore.