[vsareto]

>This view works except where it doesn't.

It only stops working in the worst case scenario though: LOTS of hastily written code (by interns?) that suddenly needs to scale and will take senior-level people years to do it.

If given that situation, most folks here would run the other way. That's years of toil for little career payoff, and a company in this situation is unlikely to be willing to pay for the best people to do it since they didn't want to pay for that in the first place.

It's very likely something like this will just die or get rewritten and it's probably for the best.