This is the common sense position held almost unanimously among all of the senior (ACTUALLY senior, not 4 years out of school senior that everyone seems to be now, I am talking hairy eared senior) software engineers I have ever worked with. Everyone is obsessed with the sexy new frameworks/etc, they think that all problems can be solved with new interpretations of what the problem "is". In reality, the problem is that a rotating team of 4 to 6 developers have to continuously fix one or two pieces of software over and over, and how to make that even remotely possible is such a massive challenge it is truly a wonder that anything ever works at all.
This is the common sense position held almost unanimously among all of the senior (ACTUALLY senior, not 4 years out of school senior that everyone seems to be now, I am talking hairy eared senior) software engineers I have ever worked with. Everyone is obsessed with the sexy new frameworks/etc, they think that all problems can be solved with new interpretations of what the problem "is". In reality, the problem is that a rotating team of 4 to 6 developers have to continuously fix one or two pieces of software over and over, and how to make that even remotely possible is such a massive challenge it is truly a wonder that anything ever works at all.