[rottc0dd]

Another thing that impedes us sunken cost fallacy. Classic "Simple vs easy" change. Even if a design is comparatively simpler, it is harder to make such change for small feature.

We had a project which is supposed to convert live objects back into code with autogenerated methods. The initial design was using a single pass over the object graph and creating abstractions of HDL and combining method blocks in the same pass.

That is a big hairy code with lot of issues. Simpler would be to handle one problem at a time - method generation in one pass and then convert the methods to HDL. But, getting approval for a deployed app is so hard. Particularly when it is a completer rewrite.