It's beautiful that this sort of expediency often comes back to bite decision makers. Unfortunately, the timescale in which it occurs makes it very possible to simply ignore the fact that they created the problem in the first place.

This also is why I do not believe LLMs pose as big a threat to software development as we're told. Maintenance will always require humans that can simultaneously comprehend the system as it is today and the system as it should be in the future.