That's the worst thing you can do. The change will be forgotten and will never be properly worked out. Why should it? It just works. I have seen a 270k loc cod

That's the worst thing you can do. The change will be forgotten and will never be properly worked out. Why should it? It just works. I have seen a 270k loc codebase where every change has been made by this kind of thinking. Nobody ever went back to make the "temporary" changes properly.