[convolvatron]

thats a largely meaningless response. enforcing a decent and maintainable architecture is potentially of great value to the company. Unfortunately thats a subjective call. I'm sure you've lived through codebases that dont really admit bug fixes or feature enhancements - things that the company knows that it cares about.

as professionals who are invested in the long term success of the company, it our responsibility to bring up concerns about the future, and attempt to negotiate a good compromise between the short term and long terms goals.