Yes. If you're not prepared for cruft, then you are going to be rewriting things all the time. Joel Spolsky talks about this desire for artistic purity over us

Yes. If you're not prepared for cruft, then you are going to be rewriting things all the time. Joel Spolsky talks about this desire for artistic purity over useful backwards compatible cruft in a couple of nice essays: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...