See my other reply below; there are definitely times when shit needs to be done. Perhaps the analogy should be the state of the house in general; if the foundation's fucked you really have no choice but to start again.
And yes, there are definitely situations where that's been necessary and I've worked with some. I've seen a piece of software that got so damn complicated that the only thing you could do with it was to add stuff exactly according to the retarded design, anything even slightly varying from that would have taken literally weeks to implement.
I think the point here is that utterly fucked software occurs way more times than people would care to admit. A lot of the problem is the disconnect between non-technical managers and coders. Coding isn't factory work.
And yes, there are definitely situations where that's been necessary and I've worked with some. I've seen a piece of software that got so damn complicated that the only thing you could do with it was to add stuff exactly according to the retarded design, anything even slightly varying from that would have taken literally weeks to implement.
I think the point here is that utterly fucked software occurs way more times than people would care to admit. A lot of the problem is the disconnect between non-technical managers and coders. Coding isn't factory work.