This post can relate to so many things – stylesheets, php code, glass fibre moulds – at some point when you’ve gone through a few iterations of an agile like process, you start thinking “If I’d known I was going to end up doing this, I would have started differently”

When you’re so close to completing, yet you know deep down it’s getting messy overcomplex and perhaps not as ‘nice’ as it could be, the decision of whether to leave it as-is because it works or to take the opportunity to rebuild everything before you go any further becomes almost unbearable.

But then I suppose is that not what the perpetual beta is all about, and eventually you get the opportunity to go for v2.0 (or 1.0 even)? In the mean time if it’s not doing any harm, leave it alone – you know it will only open up another can of worms if you start from scratch again!