[thfuran]

For most anything but a very new project, 1.5x the features isn't just advancing the roadmap, it's hitting the end and not stopping. At work, that'd probably be something like five years of work poofed into existence. Getting that for free is absolutely worth a fairly large amount of mediocre code.

[pdimitar]

That's generously assuming that the executives will accept stopping of adding new features. Even more generous assumption is that they will give engineering time and space to grasp the new code and make it more maintainable.

They always move the goalposts.