I think the perspective I was taking in my post was that many bosses do not fully understand the inner-workings of the codebase for their own product and they also don't need to maintain it.
Worse yet are the bosses that used to be a part of the programmers, but moved on a long time ago. They tend to fight for preserving the existing architecture of the application, even when it is clearly inadequate for the task at hand. To them, preserving their illusory understanding of the codebase is more important than allowing the application to evolve.
Worse yet are the bosses that used to be a part of the programmers, but moved on a long time ago. They tend to fight for preserving the existing architecture of the application, even when it is clearly inadequate for the task at hand. To them, preserving their illusory understanding of the codebase is more important than allowing the application to evolve.