[majgr]

Every messy project starts from ‘architecture’. At the beginning it is clean, and super well organized. Then, instead of, these well thought out before extensions, some breaking feature needs to be implemented. And it is implemented in the most aligned to starting ‘architecture’ fashion. After couple of years of these implementations a mess is created.

It is better to have simple solution at start, then, after each breaking feature, whole thing needs to be refactored, because initial assumptions about that software might have been changed.