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Yes, and conversely, in cases when the initial model misjudged future needs, the most disastrous projects are those where the requirements or the technical design flies in the face of the original model. When this is solved sloppily, this often begins the slow degeneration - from an application that makes sense to a spaghetti mess that is only even navigable by people who were around when those weird bolt-ons happened. Usually not only the code, but also the UI reflects this, as even massive UI overhauls (like Atlassian's in 2025) tend to just sweep everything awkward under a rug -- those things are still necessary to manage the complexity but now they're hidden under ••• → Advanced Settings → Show More → All Settings.