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So you need to be the go-to person when someone wants something new and fancy. And then you need to be able to drop it on others when it is done enough. And you move to next fancy new thing...

Got it...

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I have actually seen this happen in practice.. not saying it’s good or bad, depends on what the person wants. From your comment it seems you are implying this is bad… ? can you explain why

Quite often this results in poorly designed systems that are hard to maintain or change. As those doing the initial work and design never had to struggle with changing poorly made systems.

And as they are not present, they do not take blame for the issues caused by them.

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