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(Some of) Werner's advice in his own words (from the linked article):

* "I always urge builders to consider the evolution of their systems over time and make sure the foundation is such that you can change and expand them with the minimum number of dependencies."

* "There are few one-way doors. Evaluating your systems regularly is as important, if not more so, than building them in the first place."

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> Evaluating your systems regularly is as important, if not more so, than building them in the first place.

This is useful advice to people who can make high level org decisions. But they don’t necessarily know what’s going on at a software level.

The people who do know what’s going on often have a very hard time getting buy in for refactoring. Many of them (rightfully) conclude it’s better to just make management happy churning out features.

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