Comment by CobrastanJorji

I gotta say, I sympathize with their "goes against every instinct" plight. If I had joined a team 2 months ago, and they'd been working on something for a year, and I was thinking "we should scrap this and start it over from scratch," I'd be really, really suspicious of my own thinking. Scrap and start over is such a tantalizing programmer thought for something that seems complicated and broken, and you'll almost always want to do it, and it's almost always the wrong call. Glad it was the right call here.