[arenaninja]

This is definitely true in the interest of shipping anything. The problem is when new features are added to the thing that shipped, small refactorings should make it a manageable beast. Instead, <rant>you end up chasing bugs across six different files and fixing the entire thing will take a week and a half of your time because it involves moving things out and straightening the screwup that went on for three days before anybody noticed, so they insist you live on with the bug and keep chasing bugs down as they occur</rant>