It actually sounds incredibly sane to me right now, I just finished a task to extend some existing code to read an extra field from a CSV. I had to touch 9 files to do this. Strict typing (c#) helped, but it's only necessary because things were so over complicated in the first place.
On this project in particular there are tens of thousands of LOC, about 50 csproj files, unit tests, our own regex implementation a plugin framework and dll dependencies from half a dozen other projects. But when you step back from all that and look at what the project really does it's just taking various files and stuffing them into a database. It really could have been done with about 30 isolated 20 line bash scripts.
The biggest enemy in our line of work is the complexity we create for ourselves.
On this project in particular there are tens of thousands of LOC, about 50 csproj files, unit tests, our own regex implementation a plugin framework and dll dependencies from half a dozen other projects. But when you step back from all that and look at what the project really does it's just taking various files and stuffing them into a database. It really could have been done with about 30 isolated 20 line bash scripts.
The biggest enemy in our line of work is the complexity we create for ourselves.