User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-46630092-20201029201855/@comment-173.178.245.226-20201030023456

It's like this.

Fandom buys it.

The suits, like most suits, are completely clueless when it comes to technology and, like most suits, are narcissistic and prone to tamper tantrums.

They have some new changes they already promised to shareholders, or their cool friends. (ego plays a large role).

Their head of IT tells them it will take a long time just to understand the current code before they can start making changes.

Suits get upset: they want it now. NOW!

So they fire head of IT, and promote someone else, someone who has no skills but knows how to pucker up.

New head of IT tells them, "No worries, I can have all your features very soon!"

Suits are happy and give him the greenlight.

New head of IT tells his team to push the new features at all cost, even if it means disabling, re-writing code, breaking existing features.

And that's how it's done.