[inoffensivename]

I honestly can't tell if this comment is sarcastic...

google3 is a quagmire and it's getting worse by the day

[ignoramous]

Well, first impressions:

  It is part of our human condition to long for hard lines and clear concepts. When we have them we have to either face the fact that some realities elude them, or else bind ourselves to the inadequacy of the concepts.

https://fs.blog/impressions-are-schematically-determined / https://archive.is/F8uPE

[thwd]

Agreed. Once long (10+ years) ago, google3 may have been peak codebase. Nowadays, not so much.

Edit: I guess it also depends at what level of abstraction you work. High: can be easy breezy. Low: oh boy.