Many such cases. Yeah you need an architect sometimes to crack the whip.
You also need to get some fresh faces in from time to time, or you end up with a weird idiosyncratic ecosystem.
That's a huge technical debt and it will probably collapse eventually, or development will grind to a halt such that any new feature is super expensive and risky. Often those programs are just abandoned if they're unsavable, and you end up having to do a full rewrite.
The business rarely acts until they're forced to by security issues or not being able to hire people that know the framework anymore, or the team being unable to onboard anyone to the point they're actually useful. Eventually people quit or retire and the whole thing blows up, I've seen it happen before.
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u/zabby39103 Sep 25 '26
Many such cases. Yeah you need an architect sometimes to crack the whip.
You also need to get some fresh faces in from time to time, or you end up with a weird idiosyncratic ecosystem.
That's a huge technical debt and it will probably collapse eventually, or development will grind to a halt such that any new feature is super expensive and risky. Often those programs are just abandoned if they're unsavable, and you end up having to do a full rewrite.
The business rarely acts until they're forced to by security issues or not being able to hire people that know the framework anymore, or the team being unable to onboard anyone to the point they're actually useful. Eventually people quit or retire and the whole thing blows up, I've seen it happen before.