Comment by ownagefool

I'm a bit confused by your post here.

> The boss wanted to scale but did not care about tech... We saw revenue grow a ton.

Sounds like the boss was largely getting the scaling they wanted?

Every situation is different and there are people with way more experience than me here, but in general terms I've seen the "we need to rewrite / write a component library" from immature tech. Problem is, they're never satifised, so after they're happy and they've moved on, the next person will say the exact same thing.

That's not to say your code didn't have real problems.

But experience tells me that there's tons of well written projects with no users or revenue, and lots of broken shit making money hand over fist. All else being equal, unless you're in a bubble, you're better off with the money.

( Not intended to imply the job wasn't terrible and the product didn't have real actual scaling problems making your life terrible, I've seen that too ).