I find when this happens, it never gets refactored. The edges can be smoothed, but the architecture is dried and hardens into something that needs to be worked around by everybody else touching the code. The easiest way to solve the issue becomes the only way.
Depends on a team, of course. But happens often with business solutions. Done, whichever way. Next. It broke down in prod? Well, go fix it, it's yours now...
