[beryilma]

Good point. I've seen something similar to it, but it was a failure of the management, not developers. The management says "we painted ourselves into a corner and now we need to replace this legacy system with a modern implementation. It shouldn't take more a couple of years". The rewrite took almost 10 years to complete. If anything, the part that I would call as developers' failure was the inability to push back with realistic timelines.

[Tainnor]

I've seen it play out differently, with developers (especially seniors) pushing for their favourite tech. "We're gonna make the new system event based with Kafka", etc.

[injb]

I literally just had to shoot this exact idea down this sprint.