[ziml77]

It's also important that they know, so no one is surprised when the next release goes out with those changes and it turns out that an edge case wasn't tested. You don't want to have to explain that something broke because you made a decision on your own to clean up the code.

When you're getting permission to do something like that, management is deciding if the risk/reward tradeoff is worth it, and I think it's only fair to give them the opportunity to make that analysis.