The reality of long-term software maintenance from the maintainer's perspective ★★★★★
https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/reality-long-term-software-1892
That’s when you become wise to the risks of outside contributions. You realise: they built the first structure, but they left me with the long-term responsibility of managing it - a responsibility ultimately involving more work than the initial construction, and that ultimately caused so much trouble and expense that I’d rather they never did it in the first place, or alternatively I wish I just built it myself.