Cost-Benefit Analysis
Comments discuss whether actions, features, or changes are worthwhile by weighing costs against benefits, often highlighting opportunity costs, maintenance burdens, and situations where costs exceed gains.
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If the cost exceeds the benefit, that's a reason to not do something.
IIRC, something about opportunity cost or maintenance burden.
Cost-benefit analysis probably showed that it's not worth it for them.
The cost of running this vs the benefit must be huge.
It's not the absolute expense, it's the delta over what else would have worked just as well.
Hmmm, yeah, sounds like actually doing that would cost them much more than what they could possibly gain from it...
Because it's a massive cost for almost no gain.
You're conflating cost:reward. If it's a large cost and doesn't actually matter, maybe don't change it.
Is this just a sunk cost fallacy then, or do they expect some other benefit?
Too bad. Perhaps there is an opportunity cost argument for a better alternative.