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by wayneftw 1871 days ago
The analogy breaks because code is able to be changed at any time almost as easily as writing new code. There is no such thing as landscaping in code. It's all easy to change.
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You seem to think that it's completely free of effort and cost to change code. That is absolutely not the case. Some things can be incredibly difficult to add in to a codebase that wasn't designed to expect that kind of change.
> Some things can be incredibly difficult to add in to a codebase that wasn't designed to expect that kind of change.

In a 3 week old code base? Please... You can write the entire thing over again in a week and add what you want during that time.

The commenters here should do that too! It would probably take less effort than bitching about someone's side project that they'll probably never even use here on HN.

Tearing out code that has already been written (which would be required here) is analogous to tearing out landscaping that has already been installed. You either don't understand accessibility, analogies, or both.