There is a spectrum. I find that when a side-refactor is too much work to tack on a ticket, it's helpful to instead ask for some smaller improvement that can h

There is a spectrum. I find that when a side-refactor is too much work to tack on a ticket, it's helpful to instead ask for some smaller improvement that can help with cleanup in the future. E.g. add a line of logging that could prove down the line that a particular piece of code is not used, or switch to using a new field to let someone else delete the deprecated one later more safely.