[mhomde]

yeah, that's what's often is being done. But it prevents the methodology to have some useful best practices built into it, and a methodology could be a force in improving code quality and keeping it intact over time, which is from all the projects I've seen severely needed

[nradov]

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explicitly has that useful best practice built into it. http://www.scaledagileframework.com/refactoring/