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> The product was worse and the team had to spend too much time (more than 0 minutes) explaining to a front end dev why a baseball box score had an order that stats were always displayed in because that’s the way fans expected it

See, for me this is an argument in favor of hiring people who don’t know the field. "It’s done this way because our users expect it" is a good reason to do something, but it’s great to have it stated explicitly and consciously. It’s even food for thought: "how do we keep it this way AND improve it so that even our frontend dev who doesn’t know sports understands it?"

Everyone can learn any business. That your business is the passion of many people doesn’t mean you should only hire passionate people.