In the first part of this series , I walked through the technical grit of rebuilding a musician's web platform from scratch—spending over 320 hours fixing legacy WordPress code, writing custom CLI tools with Node.js and FFmpeg, and crafting a lightweight Vanilla JS SPA router. If Part 1 was about the engineering side , Part 2 is about the human side : scope creep, irrational client expectations, and why finishing an "abandoned" project is sometimes the ultimate test of a developer’s charac...