We're going far off into a tangent but to answer your question: - the code in question constantly produced production bugs - the code in question was extremel

We're going far off into a tangent but to answer your question: - the code in question constantly produced production bugs - the code in question was extremely hard to debug when said production bugs surfaced - everyone complained about that code being problematic, including other more senior engineers with 300k+ salaries - all the above problems went away and everyone was pleased when I broke it up into smaller pieces