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> code smells and revisiting architecture decisions

This is exactly what we're dealing with on top of shipping new features. An architectural decision that got changed 6 months later so the code had to be thrown out and re-written.

Don't blame the engineers, blame the architects. If you have any.

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Why blame anyone at all? Did everyone work to the best of their knowledge and beliefs? If not, why? And if they did, how are they to blame?

I make incorrect decisions all the time. I will continue to make them. Because I do not shy from making decisions and neither should anyone else.

You’re correct, I was thinking of a specific software architect when I wrote that.