You're right. But maybe the computation becomes more complicated and less transparent for the average user. Another benefit of choosing varying points instead

You're right. But maybe the computation becomes more complicated and less transparent for the average user. Another benefit of choosing varying points instead of always the same 1-5 scale is that someone select points from 1-7 or 1-20 also makes it really clear which options weigh more and that can be a statement by itself that maybe, those things that you value and make you want to rewrite (sometimes the reason is just that you don't want to learn the existing code) maybe isn't such an important factor.