[jniedrauer]

As I gain experience, I find myself more and more just gritting my teeth and using the nasty function as-is.

The business types don't care. What they care about is having something to sell.

The engineers who are even capable of understanding what I'm doing don't care because they've got their own deadlines on a totally unrelated part of the codebase. They probably won't even work here any more by the time someone has to touch this code again.