> Unfortunately it will all probably sort of work, But best not to dwell too much on how the sausage is made, it is pretty unpleasant.

Interestingly, most long-running codebases are like that, no?

It's just that producing (incl. reviewing/testing and all those, even AI-assisted) that amount of code in a significantly shorter period of time highlights this discrepancy much more to us.

Boiling frog