[motorest]

> Reinventing the wheel often means breaking things. Innovation often requires getting rid of backwards compatibility. The status quo is promoted by those who have invested in it, so disrupting it can be met with fierce resistance.

This is a terribly simplistic take. To start off, it ignores the fact that major rewrites are known for failing.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

It also does not help that the only item you could come up to include in your risk matrix is... Someone else's bad will? Absurdly short-sighted.

[didgetmaster]

Of course many new wheel inventions fail, and mine could very well be among them. You never know if you don't try.

The alternative, of course is to simply accept that all wheels already invented work just fine and don't need to be fixed.

Which approach is the most 'short-sighted'?