The system that runs it all
The change stays small. The fight keeps growing.
Old systems don't fail loudly. They tax quietly: every change costs more than the last one, and fewer people each year can make it at all.
Why the fight grows
The estimate that doubles
The expert who's gone
The workaround's workaround
The compounding
Nobody decided it would get this hard. It compounds on its own.
It doubles between the asking and the starting, and nobody can explain why.
The one person who truly understood it has retired, moved on, or bills accordingly.
The fixes have fixes now. Nobody remembers which one is load-bearing.
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