Clean as you go sure, but in a twisted and janky codebase, full of absurdist abstract factories and eerie hall-of-mirrors template meta-programming, you have wa

Clean as you go sure, but in a twisted and janky codebase, full of absurdist abstract factories and eerie hall-of-mirrors template meta-programming, you have watch your step. Deep, deep in the code there are bugs which have lain undististurbed for eons. Scrape away some cmake pus, sprinkle in the mandatory security fixes, sure no problem. But dig to deep with the 'WTF were they thinking reimplementing the preprocessor?' shovel and you'll wake the helter-skelter bugs from their heisencave into reality. Also, you mustn't awake the Balrog. The possibly bearded old programmer, he used to be a Hero programmer, a mythical 10x coder, and he thinks he owns ALL THE CODE. He will revert your SCCS checkin and put the GOTOs back in the code.