[dasmoth]

Cyclomatic complexity might be a textbook example of Goodhart's law. Of course few-paths code is easier to read, but that's often because it's doing something that's fundamentally simpler. And refactoring just to hit some arbitrary CC target seems very unlikely to be a route to happiness.

[andreareina]

For the unfamiliar:

Goodhart's law is an adage named after economist Charles Goodhart, which has been phrased by Marilyn Strathern as: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law