The excuse for shitty code EVERY TIME:

That's what happens when requirements change in a way that's incompatible with the existing design and you simply don't have the time to redesign everything.

Even if you did, competitors would outpace such a slow company, and by the time the slow company has something ready, the market is already taken.

And if you made a design that allows for everything, the product would never get ready in the first place.

It happens.

Here is what we want.. you 2-3 people make that happen.

3 months later.. we need this added..

3 months later.. we need this added..

3 months later.. we need this added..

Oh, and support the rest of everything else at the same time.. what? No, we don't have time to reengineer all of that, just make it work, and we need it within two weeks!

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