An acquaintance of mine has basically been doing this for years in the form of slop code written by the cheapest outsourcing firms on earth who cannot comprehend rudimentary requirements and have no concept of coding standards. But management insists this is the most cost effective way of doing things, rather than just having a competent group of qualified people do it right from the start.

It seems as depressing as you'd think.

It would be like taking your compiled machine code and editing it by hand because your compiler sucks.

Just use the right tool from the start.

Yeah god that sounds like a nightmare.