[crucialfelix]

It's extremely common to get things twisted up. Even if there is a good tech lead, that person may not be good at writing documentation, may be too busy writing code, and may not yet have a plan for how to keep things organized.

Maintaining a code base requires communication, PR reviews and discipline. That doesn't always happen.

Having lint check rules is brilliant. Never mind discipline, you just need a friendly error to say don't import services into an ORM model file. I'm going to adopt this right away.

[gabimtme]

And even with discipline, sometimes introducing tech debt in order to ship something fast is actually something desirable at the short term, specially in the startup world, so I don't think that anybody with deadlines is completely free from twisting things up.