The Boots Theory of Software Architecture

"They're so caught up running the Red Queen's race that there's seemingly little opportunity to turn things around and invest in improving their value stream. Over the long term they'll end up spending more time and effort on dealing with the problems with their architecture than someone with a good architecture — and they still won't have a good architecture."

https://kevlinhenney.medium.com/the-boots-theory-of-software-architecture-e18cf0fa5a1b