[ownagefool]

So I'm on the other side of this usually.

Most places I land there's deference to the status quo and those that came before. People assume that efforts of that past were well considered and that good work was done.

But ultimately when pressed, there's generally no evidence of the above, and when there is evidence, one can generally demonstrate the flaws in the approach, so I press on anyway and it hasn't really bitten me yet.

Of course, in many of these projects there's now deference to decisions I've made. Some of those decisions were well made, with evidence and supporting work, to make them challengeable should the understanding changes. Some of them are gut checks because they didn't matter to me at the time.

Either way the take away is good, but often practices exist simply to frustrate.