[hinkley]

The exhausting part for me was always when the bug escapes detection for a little while, is associated with some new functionality that very much did not escape detection, and it turns out that the wrong implementation is faster than possible. Now to fix the bug I get to be the bad guy and take away the customers toys (one of many many reasons to push for making the culprit fix the problem, especially if they don't want to).

It doesn't take many of these to form a coping mechanism that prevents this from happening again, even if it's at great cost. This is also the genesis of many unwinnable arguments that drag on forever.