True enough. Your developers could be incompetent and lying to you, but they could just as easily be incompetent and&#x2F;or telling you what you want to hear.<p>&gt; You can&#x27;t tell someone they&#x27;re doing it wrong if what they&#x27;re doing is making them money. That is the bottom line.<p>This is exactly the problem, though, isn&#x27;t it? If it&#x27;s easier to believe someone who tells you &quot;we can keep muddling along indefinitely&quot; than someone who tells you &quot;this will cause problems eventually&quot;, then you have some sort of cognitive dissonance to counteract.<p>In other words, what is the right response when your mechanic tells you &quot;replace your breaks or you&#x27;ll eventually die in a fiery car accident&quot;? I&#x27;m pretty sure the answer isn&#x27;t &quot;well, I don&#x27;t understand cars, so I&#x27;m going to defer this decision until you can quantify how soon I&#x27;ll be dead&quot;.