How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.
Kent BeckThe business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.
Kent BeckListening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.
Kent Beck