I agree but also think it's worth acknowledging the trade off you're making. If you never touch a piece of code, then at some point nobody remembers or is able

I agree but also think it's worth acknowledging the trade off you're making. If you never touch a piece of code, then at some point nobody remembers or is able to understand what it's doing. I think this is worse than changing code that has been field tested but admit I am biased because I work on a large project where we are beginning to run into this problem.