[buran77]

The usual argumentation is "I need to make a living" and "if I didn't build it someone else would have done an even worse job, like this at least I could be an activist on the inside and guide the efforts to make it better".

[MSFT_Edging]

Another method is to stall and sabotage the development via endless bike shedding, language changes, rewrites, refactors. All normal things in every project. Drag those feet.

[zihotki]

And the people will be just simply fired for underperforming. Or anything else, it's easy when you have at will employment.