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Another interesting post Akos. And certainly a real scenario.

From my experience of seeing such situations, it's often a case where teams invest time into such upgrades without proper fact-checking or data analysis. Once they realize this, they get caught up in the "sunk-cost fallacy". It's like throwing good money after bad hoping that the net result is profit.

Thanks for the mention as well!

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Thanks, Saurabh! Yes most of the time it's the fear of throwing away invested time. And I love how all these fallacies have names. 😃

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I enjoyed the article Akos :)

Very often in such cases people jump into the upgrade, and then feel too invested to reevaluate that decision later on.

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Thanks, Anton! I'm sure you've been in this situation 😀 and yes, the feeling of having to push through (a questionable idea) because you're already too invested is hard to fight...

I still have some ongoing projects I should kill because they aren't profitable, but I've already spent too much time on them.

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