🔗 Change and risk:

At most places I’ve worked at, any amount of change feels extremely risky and that sentiment at one point or another moves out of the codebase and into every meeting and discussion. So I think that as a small dev team, where every moment is precious, perhaps the most important thing is reliability in a codebase.

And this problem is compounded by the dynamic wherein larger, more complex organizations tend to product larger and more complex architectures and codebases. So then in addition to change being risky because of the codebase itself, it is made even more risky by the organizational structures and politics that have to be navigated in order to make any changes.