In my team we manage 2 software components. 1 of them (A) has 2 devs, the other (B) approximately 5.

Every time a feature needs to be added, B complains that it's going to take forever, while A is done in a fraction of the time.

The difference? B is a clusterfuck of a codebase that they have no time to refactor because they run low on time to implement the features.

I work in A, but I'm not going to steal the credit, when I entered the company, A already had a much cleaner codebase. It's not that me and my partner are 10x better than the ones working in B, they just have uglier code to deal with.

I can't comprehend why management doesn't see the reason A needs half the devs to do the job faster.