This kind of mentality is why most applications are shit and broken. And why most hires are worthless.
And everyone is not working on a cookie cutter over-bloated rails website. Sorry but this kind of remark simplifying our job always pisses me off.
In a system of any complexity, changing your data model is an activity that requires due diligence to mitigate any downstream risk.
We also have throwaway apps like an internal time clock system which monitors when people show up based on their cell MAC.
Latter case: Adding a checkbox is easy.
Former case: Adding a checkbox is easy but we have to test it first.
That sounds miserable.
We started adding in other employees in multiple departments cause they liked it better than manually tracking.