[giantg2]

Wow, this whole thing sounds exactly like me. I'm definitely at the stage where I've given the organization permission to fail and am just drudging on now.

I mean, the system I started working on 2 years ago was using a business text field for processing decisions. That caused changes to the system when the business wants to make changes. If they do make changes, the reporting queries have to be modified to look for all the historical versions of that text for audit reasons. If the team asking that change forgets to tell one of the numerous other systems that also uses that field, then there are errors. I proposed we add a field with a code that represents this field so that the business can change the display text without affecting the systems that currently use it. It's been at least 18 months, and nothing has changed. You would think that this is a basic design best practice that should have been implemented from the beginning...