Wow, this is literally the story of my team. Luckily there’s enough autonomy for us the escape the gravitational pull of the few remaining evangelists, but this is essentially what led us to this point.
For a while it seemed like investment would win but now I think we will have massive tombs of poorly written stuff that can only be worked around with even more LLM generated solutions. It is like the software bloat problem we've had recently but on steroids.