alt Hacker News> Mid sized features often mean tearing up many layers of code across the stack to add in some sort of new capability
What? No, it shouldn't. I've worked on a lot of codebases and if you have to do this, something is very, very wrong.
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bottlepalm • today at 4:09 AM
Nothing wrong at all. Some features you can bolt on, and some features fundamentally change how a system works requiring changes at many different levels of the stack. Happens all the time.
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This likely assumes you have a mature and well designed (architected) code base. That is not always the case, and as features get added and removed, that won't be the case at all until there is a refactor.