[proneb1rd]

It’s baffling how the fear or reluctance of introducing a change drives a series of insane design decisions to accommodate the existing codebase.

[linhns]

Yep. I always feel weird that developers cannot get that the only constant thing in software is change. Codebase like this is not gonna last long and sooner or later the project is gonna kick the bucket.

[lloydatkinson]

I most frequently see this in codebases with no tests resulting in low confidence or even no understanding of what anything does.