«“an extremely rare set of circumstances” with two identically named but separate waypoint markers outsidethe UK’s airspace»

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/06/uk-air-traffic-failure-blamed-on-extremely-rare-circumstances-as-caa-opens-inquiry

Somewhere there is a software dev who advocated for disambiguating waypoint names seven or eight years ago, and a manager (or managerS) who said, no, that will add a month to the time this project takes. We’ll go back and fix it later.