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by fireflash38 1459 days ago
Frequently people forget what happens when they do that. People love refactoring... but forget how that spaghetti got there in the first place.

Spoiler alert: it's because life is messy and doesn't fit neatly into buckets & code. You throw out so much testing bug fixing & corner case fixes.

For every reg that is abused by bad actors, there's a dozen that are written in blood.