[kibwen]

> People are typically more reticent to remove things that were hard to implement, even if that's the right thing to do.

Careful. The sunk cost fallacy isn't just about time, it's also about money, and people may naturally be reluctant to remove bad features that cost them a lot of tokens, especially if the act of removal itself is going to cost even more tokens.

[jfim]

That's a pretty good point, and I assume at $work they wouldn't appreciate throwing away $n dollars worth of code.