[PixelPusher]

Thank God I've never HAD to do a complete re-write of anything.

What the author describes sounds like a complete nightmare.

On the projects I've worked on, I would like to think that a rewrite will not be needed.

If it does, it will be because we've now understood the problem space so well that we can start from scratch and avoid all the 'pivots' that happened in the original code base.