Companies don’t remember or learn. People come and go and after a software lifecycle everything is forgotten as the top management gets refreshed.

In my case those almost never pass. Maybe you’re the only one exclusively working on that system…? When you’re one of a number of contractors competing to do something in software that cannot be regulated, you’re basically screwed.

My all time favourite Miyazaki series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Boy_Conan It impacted me so much Istill think about it 40 years later…