Consolidating multiple chapters in one listing should be a SMOP -- a Small Matter of Programmig. In good circumstances, the term is descriptive, in bad ones it is sardonic. (Somehow the bad ones seem to outnumber the good ones--not that that should be an excuse.) Remember though that every one of us has problems, that some things -really- need to be fixed (like throwing away italics when copy-pasting a story in), and even SMOPs have questions that can affect the algorithms to be written.
That said, this is one of those little things that should have been flagged in a design review--or a requirements review. Somehow they never are, though, and the people who do catch them are just the sort of gadflies who get fired because they aren't team players. (Probably none of that applies to the TNBW team, which I'm guessing is a bit smaller--which makes good reviews hard.) If you have a couple hundred hours to kill, read the Shark Tank archives on Computerworld.com. I don't know if computer work actually gathers more vexing mistakes, but it sure makes them more memorable.