Yes, its very much a goldfish problem, where work needed grows to fill what is possible, not what is advisable or good.
The only way I have seen people "solve" this is by putting a bunch of speed bumps in a process, and generally it just makes everyone lazy and deliver stuff at the last second anyway, not use the additional time to make something polished.
>> The only way I have seen people "solve" this is by putting a bunch of speed bumps in a process
I solve this by sufficient compartmentalization with good inter-component interfaces. Worst case, you excise part of your system and rebuild. Possibly you can take the schema and docs and rebuild with an LLM :-)
I talk about this in my upcoming book on the topic (link above.) Most good systems are rebuilt 3 or 4 times anyway.
