[typicalrunt]

Oh wow. I just raged at my manager for exactly this type of problem.

I'm not sure if it's due to someone's lack of technical ability, or if they get distracted by other externalities, but we always tend towards something that seems really simple at first but instead incurs a lot of technical and process debt later on.

Brilliant read.

[epochwolf]

My experience is this is caused by a lack of refactoring/ rewriting code when it can no longer support easily modification into the desired functionality.