There's plenty of finicky systems which go on to be good systems with a lot of work. Some things are just hard, a lot of the time you just don't see them being hard so publicly.

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mempko 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Sometimes a design is poor and needs a lot of modification and patches to kind of work.

	▲	XorNot 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's software engineer "I'll simplify it!" logic and the score of it's successes is far too low for how common it is. If a design with a bunch of modifications works, then it's a good design. Thinking you need to clean sheet redesign everything is how you get Second System Syndrome.