[blakehaswell]

I really enjoyed this, I think looking the organisational structure through time is a good take that I haven't really seen addressed so clearly before.

I would have liked to see an exploration of the "through time" lens on some of the more micro code-organisation structures he talked about at the end like class hierarchies. It's definitely a common problem in legacy code—there's some idea you want to express but the existing structures make that very difficult and so you end up twisting your idea to fit, further ossifying the existing structures.

I've also seen cases where the organisation structure was changed to affect some change, but the existing code structure makes that so difficult that the software doesn't actually change to reflect the new structure at all, and instead the new organisation is just slowed down by coordination costs at the organisational level as well as different coordination costs at a technical level.