I once was assigned a group project with some other students in my sociology class. They forced me to change a correct answer to a wrong answer despite my vehement protests to the contrary.

I put kubuntu on an old laptop. It runs well enough that I am going to dual boot it on my main PC.

Microsoft out here doing Linux marketing for them.

His teammate looks concerned with that side eye.

Ted, you stupid motherfucker, how about we start executing them instead of protecting them?

The lore is that there was once a proper architecture but that it has been feature crept into oblivion and should have been refactored multiple times by this point. Now all that remains is technical debt.

No one likes you if you point out that the “proper architecture” was obviously inadequate. They also will never fund the rewrite.