A personal joke is that when I was young I liked to write code, nowadays I find deleting code much more satisfying. Less code = less complexity, less side effe

A personal joke is that when I was young I liked to write code, nowadays I find deleting code much more satisfying. Less code = less complexity, less side effects, less maintenance, and less bugs. Sure, you have to do it without loosing any useful functionality. As a software ages, it becomes bloated, there is a lot of copy'n paste, features aren't useful anymore because the business changed.