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- Dear OP,
> "I'm hoping to close them out soon, ideally before I run out of goodwill."
Your goodwill is already depleted, time to move on.
by mrngm - The problem here isn’t the rewrite, the problem here is toxic management, massive feature creep, unrealistic expectations, etc., etc. You’d have been doomed without the rewrite.by wduquette
- > "I joined this company after they'd gone a stretch without any developer, and the bug queue showed it."
I think maybe if you're at a company like that, you should be very cautious in suggestions/timeline/etc about literally anything and everything technical. Certainly much more than you would be at a company that has a basic level of software engineering competency. It's kind of a different world...
by vikramkr