I feel like we lost the plot when we started optimising for 'Developer Velocity' (shipping features) over 'System Coherence' (maintainability). Most failed pro

I feel like we lost the plot when we started optimising for 'Developer Velocity' (shipping features) over 'System Coherence' (maintainability). Most failed projects I've been around were killed by accidental complexity—too many abstraction layers wrapping simple logic.