Comment by fmbb

It will become the headache of future team members that have to debug it when it inevitably crashes four years in the future, or needs to be rebuilt or the deployment moved.

Now personally I am fine with this, being that person. I will cause friction however. Unfortunately it is the new big people that take the hit from the previous big people. But such is the way of the world, this is what we are paid for.

Sometimes you get lucky and can shut things down. Then you get to celebrate that as well, shutting down the thing nobody ever used but everyone celebrated “shipping”. At least I get my celebratory cake!