If it's so extremely obvious, why does it happen time and time again? I think I've spent all of my time arguing against this process. It's bad. It's better to improve on a bad design, than to make a bad design worse by adding another design to it. But it's hard to notice that.

Because its extremely difficult to do something about it.

Its normal for people to change what they're working on, this is inevitable.

There is some benefit to naming common problems to help discuss them, but this name strikes me as too clever / not immediately clear enough. "Bit rot" is a somewhat similar phenomena with a much better name.