THE SUNK COST PARADOX.
Do not stay in a burning building simply because you spent a lot of money on the wallpaper. If the fundamental architecture is broken, starting fresh is wise.
Whether it is a painting, a coding codebase, a haircut, a career, or your entire life trajectory: should you hit factory reset?
Do not stay in a burning building simply because you spent a lot of money on the wallpaper. If the fundamental architecture is broken, starting fresh is wise.
A new project always looks clean and gleaming because it has no bugs yet. Understand that every new start eventually reaches the same muddy middle.
List the 3 fatal flaws. If fixing those flaws takes longer than rebuilding clean with the lessons you already learned, start over.
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. Make sure the problem is the city, not your internal weather.