
The original article claims that firing Rick was the best decision they ever made, but at the end of the day, they lost someone with tons of domain-specific knowledge, someone who worked with the clients to prototype the requirements they desired, and ended up being forced to ship an inferior product with even more of a pushback as they re-invented Rick’s work, complaining about the shitty code. All the while, they remained totally oblivious to the burdens this man was bearing to keep it all together.