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Maybe, but that's also the mindset of serious innovation. The question is whether or not the idea is a good one or not.

In software engineering the FB codebase would definitely be considered >50% maintenance. While we don't have a good fundamental for software as we do for electrical engineering, we do have some basic studies showing that refactors in products at the maintenance stage usually lead to more bug and not less.

> but that's also the mindset of serious innovation

And I'd completely agree, if the project was to build FB from scratch. However in this case a software engineer that shows up in a mature codebase and wants to redo-it in a different architecture is simply immature, reckless and ignorant.

Or looking to play the promo game, build a bunch of unnecessary stuff and get a pat on the back and better comp

It’s either god complex or pure lack of foresight and an inability to learn from or plain lack of experience.