[tasuki]

Fully agreed. No matter how "clean code", the next person or team is immediately going to label it "legacy" and complain endlessly about all the choices made by the original author(s).

[Jensson]

Many dependencies? Updating them is hell, remove dependencies and just write the utilities we need so we can update to latest easily!

Few dependencies? Too much reinventing the wheel, delete all that code and add dependencies!

There is no perfect code, can always make different trade-offs and move things around.