> They can't even get the color scheme aligned. Again, if they said 'nobody cares' that's just prioritization, but I know that this has been attempted at least 5 times with teams of a dozen people spending up to a year on it.
Not being able to get color scheme misalignment fixed with multiple team-years’ of effort is shocking and appalling.
No, it's quite normal. Normal levels of pathology you can see in every small medium and large business. Being able to make sweeping changes at the expected marginal cost - that is rare, almssot unique.
Most human organisations are crippled by pathologies mistrust and misaligned incentives.
Fixing those almost always involves ending the org and building a new one.
If you were on the web in the late 90s you remember a time when the default web page background was grey. The background on some pages on myebay section of ebay.com are still grey (some of them) for that reason!
Not being able to get color scheme misalignment fixed with multiple team-years’ of effort is shocking and appalling.