[bottled_poe]

any code base that evolves over time will have complexity. It can be either manageable or unmanageable complexity. Either sacrifice maintainability for early development velocity, or plan for medium-to-long term velocity. You CAN have both velocity and maintainability, but the engineers will be expensive. Fast, good, cheap - pick two. A tale as old as bits.

[fulafel]

I think it's not a zero-sum game, you can win by judiciously avoiding incidental complexity.