there is a balance to be had here. oftentimes people make their own corner of the code because they are afraid, or their superiors are, of the scope of work whi

there is a balance to be had here. oftentimes people make their own corner of the code because they are afraid, or their superiors are, of the scope of work which is actually about 3 hours of consistent work with good discipline and not the 17 years they imagine. millions of lines of code itself is a code smell. some of the absolute worst code i have to work with comes from industry standard crapware that is just filled with lots of do nothing bug factories. you gotta get rid of them if you want to make it more stable and more reliable. however... i often see the problem, and its not "don't do this obvious strategy to improve qol" its "don't use that bullshit you read a HN article about last week" i suspect this is one of those.