I should probably also point out that the "improved" architecture turned out to be corrupting customer data for more than 6 months... which led to termination o

I should probably also point out that the "improved" architecture turned out to be corrupting customer data for more than 6 months... which led to termination of that individual. I'd already left by that point, after a heated conversation in which I was told "you're not half as good a software engineer as you think you are". Well, duh. Amusingly, the PHP app is still running, still working.