[dataduck]

The issue is with non-technical people who see that the hacked together mess of a proof of concept "works" and insist that you can just build straight on top of that without any work to make it into an actual working codebase.

[samhw]

Yeah, that's where the engineer/s need/s to be able to explain things clearly to non-technical stakeholders - which is vital for many other things besides this.

I think our hypothetical company would likely founder on any of a hundred other issues before this one if none of the engineers had this skill.