This reminds me of the Joel Spolsky's post on why you should never re-write your code from scratch [1].
The reasoning goes most 'ugliness' comes from bug-fixes that people encountered along the way, and by re-writing that 'two page function' you lose all that accumulated knowledge. In short, the hacks that make us want to rewrite code are there for a reason
The reasoning goes most 'ugliness' comes from bug-fixes that people encountered along the way, and by re-writing that 'two page function' you lose all that accumulated knowledge. In short, the hacks that make us want to rewrite code are there for a reason
[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...