Comment by throwaway40324

After reading this, Its killing me not knowing what they built, used, or implemented instead of using sshd. It would add much more context.

Is the author a Lead? Manager? Architect? On the same team, or department? A direct peer?

All of this matters in order to better answer the main question presented in the article.

Why wasnt more than one dev involved in discussing a design or possible solutions before the work was performed? If that was the case, where was the author when that happened?

Why didn't you just already know they weren't using sshd?