Comment by jamescostian

I think a lot of really smart people end up claiming something like "this whole system wasn't designed properly, we can do it way cleaner if we redesign it from the ground up" but it's always a trap. Incremental improvements take less time, can be more easily understood, are safer to deploy. But a lot of those really smart people have perfectionistic tendencies that cloud their judgement, and nobody can imagine all the different paper cuts that will get in the way of their beautiful vision. And thus, the new technical debt (to someone else) is written