See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud
There is a rich literature on design anti-patterns and the reasons they exist and survive.
Agree that biology looks like a classic legacy system, but worse:
3.5B years old
No documentation
No source code
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud
There is a rich literature on design anti-patterns and the reasons they exist and survive.
Agree that biology looks like a classic legacy system, but worse: