There is nothing quite as pleasurable (with reference to technical work) as sending large amounts of obsolete code to the bit bucket. I often judge my refactor

There is nothing quite as pleasurable (with reference to technical work) as sending large amounts of obsolete code to the bit bucket. I often judge my refactoring decisions based on how much code gets removed. If a change results in the removal of code at many locations then I take that as confirmation that I made a good decision.