Yep. I feel like this every time a coworker pushes back on a code review “I’m just trying to get this to work”.

Okay but this is the ninth time in a row, and now you’re building on top of all the other half-baked bits, and the confusion from every one of these layering on top of one another is forcing you to do more hacks on hacks on hacks. And then when you finally “get it to work” there will be no way to disentangle this whole mess.

That same co-worker, 2-6 months later: “yeah I used x tech/framework/tool/library it was really bad, never again!”

Or alternatively: “yeah it’s really simple, you just <dive into my madness inducing garbage pile”.