Once upon a time I got pulled off a project in the middle; the project was given to a new, but experienced, developer to finish. I was talking to a friend who is one of our cloud guys the other day and he tells me "my" app is a bit of a problem child. It seems it crashes regularly but the problem is mitigated by the server restarting, so no one has any urge to fix it. (As a professional, I'm offended.)
Servers as cattle can cover a variety of sins.