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The problem I often run into is people equating “we need to replace this” with “it never should have existed”.

Whether it needs to be replaced or not has absolutely nothing to do with how it got there in the first place. Yes, maybe the company avoiding bankruptcy due to your clever kludge. Thank you for your service. But today we are tripping over your kludge left, right, and center. So it gots ta go.



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