Even if I have never had this sort of Content Addressable Function "solution" I can still relate very much to this story. A story consisting of $NEW_PERSON entering some huge existing project, with $NULL_AMOUNT of documentation, where there is some established "hegemony" of some inaccessible $GENIUS, with $ZERO_AMOUNT of help and support, where bosses will likely to $YELL or otherwise treat you as a problem, where every move is very fragile and often leads to $CONFLICT... I surprises me how archetypical is this.

It is this moment when you search for the big red lever with sign: "EJECT!!!"