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Yep. I’ve seen this in a number of startups. Didn’t see it as much at big firms.

Reading code is harder than writing code. So, IMO, lazy or slow engineers would rather complain that code should be rewritten than refactored. Or that different frameworks / languages should be used.

Ive entertained them a few times before realizing that it was a waste of time and often things came out worse.

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I don't think I would agree with the usage of the word "lazy" to describe coders that want to rewrite entire chunks of code. They may have their invalid reasons for wanting to do so, but I wouldn't call that being lazy.

Yeah, I feel that this is by and large the scenario I've witnessed. Not necessarily pushed by slow/lazy engineers but those that are bored with tried and true solutions that have some 'difficult corners to chamfer'. I think the problem with developers is that they want to solve a problem in a very recognisable pattern playing into the Asperger's like nature held by most perfectionists but unfortunately ends up much like your have outlined (but now they have some hot new technology on there resume so moving onto different problems is usually more desirable than re-fixing the new problems they've introduced to solve again)

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