Breaking Changes Risks
Commenters debate the dangers of software changes, rollbacks, and reversions causing breakage, cascade effects, reliability issues, and difficulties in undoing decisions.
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That would break so many things.
Just rolling back changes to previous versions might be enough to cause problems.
Well, they keep on reverting everything...
I think this mistake had a cascade effect on the other ones. If you remove this one, a lot of other ones should be manageable.
I think you might inadvertently create a few new problems if you did this.
Reversing it at that point would make things radically worse.
Probably something that works for them now and a change might degrade reliability.
I'd assume that they've added a check for that now, but it's hard to predict beforehand what things will break.
Maybe the opposite, slow rollbacks cause escalating incidents.
Do you have any specific examples of what would break because of this?