[gorjusborg]

That inversion can happen, but it does make me wonder what's up with that company.

Seems like business is so solid they can print money with existing systems and use it to fund the future...

OR

Business is in shambles and they're trying to moonshot their way out of it before the money runs out.

Either way, I can't imagine that situation being sustainable.

[rdtwo]

I think this is the normal way of things. Managers don’t get prompt for making existing stuff work a little better, they get rewarded for moonshot and special projects. As such the core money makers often get neglected in favor of cool but useless new features