[jseban]

And now you try to suggest using a screwdriver, but your suggestion gets immediately attacked and buried because the team already have an established culture around the impossible table, and they don't want to change their ways, or made to look incompetent by revealing that there was an easy solution all along.

[headsoup]

Or it can be as simple as someone's (or a whole team) job is to maintain those workarounds and bandaids and they're very invested in keeping their job (or they hold all the IP in their head).

[notreallyserio]

Not just an established culture but a product with a long history of success despite its jank and problems. I appreciate the enthusiasm of new hires but often they don't understand priorities or that the goal is profit and not perfection (for most of us).