I too have played the disappointed and befuddled architecture evangelist. The counter-argument that inevitably ended these conversations was: “This is a business. We make money by getting stuff out the door. Demonstrate how the time it would take to rework this code base would correspond to an increase in profits, then we can talk about how your time and people budget is impossible to justify.”

“Pretty behind the scenes” doesn’t make any difference when you’re focused on getting people to build you a moneymaking machine as fast and cheap as possible.

Update:

[Thanks to everyone who reached out, fediDB.org and fediverse.info will remain online going forward.

I’m not going anywhere either, though I think I need a break from the fediverse for a few days.](https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110572348499857791)

Ayup. Or rather, that’s the most recent of it; I don’t have historical background.