I agree with your modification. I haven't had the pleasure of experiencing an environment where a large, hard-coded IF block (or whatever) was preferred to a m

I agree with your modification. I haven't had the pleasure of experiencing an environment where a large, hard-coded IF block (or whatever) was preferred to a more stable, maintainable solution, so I can't comment on that. But one of my clients has a brand new codebase written by an "expert" contractor that has all but killed the business. I call it "startup fail" and it's sad to see that stuff happen. Especially when I saw it coming and warned the owner not to hire this particular guy. I suppose it's made me a little knee-jerky when I see code that he would almost certainly have written and been proud of.