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Max's answer to the InfoQ interview[1] question "What is the most terrible code that you ever encountered, and what was your approach to refactoring it?" may be relevant.

In his book "Code Simplicity", Max has a checklist (summarized in point 4 of https://techbeacon.com/app-dev-testing/rewrites-vs-refactori...) -- and that's the checklist referred to in the InfoQ interview.

1: https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/01/q-a-max-kanat-alexander/