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by jkoudys 2847 days ago
Absolutely. The best maintenance I do isn't renaming a bunch of properties, or putting in better exception handling. It's deciding that entire features or the basic approach to a problem is fundamentally flawed and needs to be scrapped.

You do this work long enough, and you can usually tell in under a minute if you're dealing with code that takes shortcuts, or a big pile of copypasta from SO.