Comment by paxys

This phenomenon is well known in tech. "The product doesn't work as well as expected. We can painstakingly investigate all the different issues one by one, root cause them, and put in the effort to fix them. Or we could just throw out the whole codebase and start again from scratch. That's sure to be more effective right?" Spoiler – it isn't. Musk just threw out a thousand+ years of combined experience in the area, and the new team is going to come in and repeat years' worth of the same mistakes in order to realize why things are the way they are.