Yep. At one point my company tried to hire an architect from outside to lead our engineering team. Our software is very complicated, even ignoring the codebase and just looking at the business use cases. It takes years before people become somewhat familiar with it.

That guy noped out after three months and literally gave the product’s complexity as the main reason. Complete waste of money.

They eventually promoted one of our senior devs instead and he absolutely killed it. Modernized much of the codebase and dev processes because we were still acting like a startup at the time. It’s insane they just didn’t go with him from the beginning. He saved the company many millions of dollars that will never show up on a bean counter’s spreadsheet.