[kthielen]

> But I would advise taking time to consider whether it's actually, within the lens of yesterday (or 2 years ago)... good?

Other than to soothe egos, this almost never matters, because the person inheriting someone else’s code doesn’t live 2 years ago and can’t be blamed for not having the prior context (establishing that context is the job of the original author and is why documentation matters).

If you find yourself in the thankless position of having to reverse engineer intent and especially if you have an unsympathetic manager ready to lecture you about how you should magically read the mind of the original author, start looking for a new job and hack/slash away as much of the old code as possible to do the job that you’re asked to do.